Wisconsin plans to drug test childless adults who apply for Medicaid, but here’s the one thing the article leaves out; how much will it cost Wisconsin taxpayers? – PB/TK
Wisconsin Seeks to Be First to Drug Test Medicaid Applicants – AP / May 25 2017
Gov. Scott Walker wants to make Wisconsin the first state in the country to require childless adults applying for Medicaid to undergo drug screening, a move that could serve as a national model.
Walker’s plan, which needs federal approval, comes as he prepares to run for a third term next year. Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Legislature approved Walker’s request for a waiver to do the drug tests two years ago, but is now digging into the details of how it would actually work.
The Legislature’s budget-writing Joint Finance Committee was to review a wide range of Walker’s welfare reform proposals Thursday, including imposing a new work requirement on childless adult Medicaid recipients and parents who receive food stamps. The committee could vote to give the Legislature more oversight of the programs or make changes to what Walker wants.
Walker has talked for years about drug testing Medicaid and food stamp recipients, touting it as a way to make welfare programs a “trampoline, not a hammock” to get people back into the workforce.
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