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They will also result in working parents and their children losing health care because of, in part, the creation of new work requirements for Medicaid recipients such as my family and I. This additional government red tape could leave working people, caregivers and the disabled without their health insurance. ("Editorial: Medicaid work requirements won’t work — unless the goal is to throw people out," June 19.)

Under this proposal, states could require families like mine to check in as often as monthly in order to verify that they’re meeting the work requirement, but the bill doesn’t provide funding to cover the administrative costs for these required checks. Meaning, we in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ either foot the bill or the system remains underfunded. Funding shortages have already led to an understaffed and overworked system. 

Real working people have complex lives with loved ones to take care of, which doesn’t fit neatly into an underfunded bureaucracy that seems built to fail. Most Medicaid recipients such as myself are working to provide for our families and we’re able to work most when we’re healthy. Medicaid is what keeps us working, and out of poverty.

With the upcoming Senate vote for this bill, please join me in calling Sen. Hawley to urge that he oppose work requirements and save Medicaid to support working families.

Kyle Meyer

Union