Scott Jennings: Medicaid Isn’t Supposed to Be a Lifestyle ... Messing with Medicaid Forces People to Go to Work

EXCERPT:

PHILLIP: "So, in order to save money, you've got to get people off the program. How is that not taking people off the program?"

JENNINGS: "Because the goal of Medicaid is not to trap people. It‘s to — it‘s not supposed to be a lifestyle. It‘s supposed to be a temporary deal. So, yes, we don‘t want to trap people on Medicaid. We want to get them to go to the workplace. And, I mean, there are able-bodied people all over this country who do nothing."