Families USA Submits Comments to CMS on Arizona’s Section 1115 Waiver Amendment for AHCCCS Works Program
05.09.2025
Families USA submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Arizona Section 1115 Waiver Amendment Request pertaining to the proposed Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) Works program. We strongly urge CMS to reject AHCCCS Works and all future attempts from states to adopt work reporting or so called “community engagement” requirements for Medicaid eligible populations.
Work reporting requirements do not work for any state. In every location in which they are proposed, Families USA will remain strongly opposed to the programs under any name, such as “community engagement requirements” or a so-called “solution to poverty.”
By any name, the end result is the same — burdensome bureaucratic create barriers to care and coverage trying to solve a nonexistent problem as 92% of Medicaid enrollees across the country are already working or would meet an exemption because they are in school, ill or disabled, or caregiving.
Families USA strongly urges CMS to consider the economic impact and human toll of AHCCCS’ proposed amendment to its Section 1115 Demonstration Waiver. We therefore respectfully ask CMS to reject.
