; and (3) the Federal Government should unleash the power of private-sector medical innovation by removing regulatory obstacles that impede the adoption of new medical technology and pharmaceuticals. 506. Policy statement on Medicaid work requirements (a) Findings The House finds the following: (1) Medicaid is a Federal-State program that provides health care coverage for impoverished Americans. (2) Medicaid serves four major population categories: the elderly, the blind and disabled, children, and adults. (3) The Congressional Budget Office projects the average monthly enrollment in Medicaid for fiscal year 2018 to be 76 million people. (4) Of this 76 million people, 27 million - more than one third of the enrollees - are non-elderly, non-disabled adults. (5) Medicaid continues to grow at an unsustainable rate, and will cost approximately one trillion dollars per year within the decade, between Federal and State spending. (6) Congress has a responsibility to preserve limited Medicaid resources for America’s most vulnerable - those who cannot provide for themselves. (7) In 2016, the Foundation for Government Accountability conducted a first-of-its-kind study on the power of work. It analyzed data from the State of Kansas, which demonstrates that work requirements have led to greater employment, higher incomes, and less poverty. (8) The State of Maine implemented work requirements in 2014, and saw incomes rise for able-bodied welfare recipients by an average of 114 percent within a year. (9) Work is a valuable source of human dignity, and work requirements help lift Americans out of poverty by incentivizing self-reliance. (b) Policy on medicaid work requirements It is the policy of this concurrent resolution that— (1) Congress should enact legislation that encourages able-bodied, non-elderly, non-pregnant adults without dependents to work, actively seek work, participate in a job-training program, or do community service, in order to receive Medicaid