FILE – In this April 3, 2021, file photo, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp listens to a question during a news conference at the State Capitol in Atlanta. Georgia sued the Biden administration Friday, Jan. 21, 2022, over its decision to revoke approval of the state’s plan to require Medicaid recipients to meet a work requirement as part of a limited expansion of the health insurance program to more low-income Georgians, the governor’s office said.
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia sued the Biden administration Friday over its decision to revoke approval of a work requirement in the state’s plan to expand Medicaid coverage to more low-income Georgians.
The lawsuit filed in federal court in Brunswick, Georgia, says the decision last month by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was an illegal and arbitrary “bait and switch of unprecedented magnitude.” It seeks a court order reinstating the original plan with the work requirement.
“Simply put, the Biden administration is obstructing our ability to implement innovative healthcare solutions for more than 50,000 hardworking Georgia families rather than rely on a one-size-fits-none broken system,” Georgia Gov Brian Kemp, a Republican, said in a news release announcing the lawsuit.
He accused the Democratic president’s administration of playing politics.
Emails to CMS and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were not immediately returned.
The work requirement was approved by then-President Donald Trump’s administration, but CMS announced last month that it was revoking approval of both that plan and a related Georgia proposal to charge some Medicaid recipients monthly premiums for their health coverage.
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