Stephanie Hoffer on Disability and Medicaid Reform

In this episode, Stephanie Hoffer, Professor of Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, discusses her article "Making the Law More ABLE: Reforming Medicaid for Disability," which was published in the Ohio State Law Journal. Hoffer begins by describing how the ADA requires the federal and state governments to provide financial assistance to people with disabilities, and how that assistance is provided through Medicaid. She explains how Medicaid's income and asset restrictions both impose burdens on people with disabilities and their families, and create perverse incentives. Among other things, they limit the ability of people with disabilities to work and the ability of their families to provide financial assistance. She recognizes that the ABLE act helped reduce the problem somewhat, by enabling people with disabilities to save and their families to help them. But she argues that the government should do more, by eliminating income restrictions, and explains why that would provide more equitable treatment at a similar or even lower cost. Hoffer is on Twitter at @ProfHoffer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.