Makes sense. If your household income is $30k and you get the whole gamut, that’s probably equivalent to $70k compensation. What kills people is that $50k makes you ineligible for most of it, and there’s usually no sliding scale, you’re in or your out.
This has long been a crazy problem. There should be at least a 30k or 40k range in which each benefit phases out.
For example, if the Medicaid cutoff line is $55k for a family of 4, and Medicaid supplies insurance worth $20k, then the phase out range would be from earning $40k to $80k, in which you lose one dollar of coverage for every two dollars you earn.
Obviously, the exact details would have to be tweaked, but we need to disincentives not earning, and we have to make sure it is always worth it to go to work.