Working Healthy: The First Step is Work

Abstract

Working Healthy, the Kansas Medicaid Buy-In program, allows people with disabilities to enter or increase employment and keep their Medicaid coverage. One of the first requirements to quality for Working Healthy is to have a job. In a Satisfaction Survey mailed to participants in June 2003, we asked how each person found his or her more recent employment. By far the most common way respondents had found their jobs was by themselves, through such means as word of mouth.