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COMMENTARY: What both sides miss about Medicaid employment requirements
The real question isn’t whether to link work with Medicaid; it’s how to help more Americans use safety net programs as a ...
Medicaid enrollees fear losing health coverage if Congress enacts work requirements
The prospect of a work requirement for able-bodied Medicaid recipients is sparking fears. The measure is part of a sweeping ...
Governing2dOpinion
The False Promise of Medicaid Work Requirements
Millions are likely to lose health insurance, and there is no credible data that imposing such rules would save money. They ...
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities2dOpinion
House Republican Bill Would Impose a One-Size-Fits-All Medicaid Work Mandate on States
A provision taking health coverage away from people who can’t meet or regularly document they meet a work requirement or ...
The Conversation16d
There’s no evidence work requirements for Medicaid recipients will boost employment, but they are a key piece of Republican spending bill
The House version calls for the states, which administer Medicaid within their borders and help pay for the program, to adopt work requirements by the end of 2026. The effect of this policy ...
Washington Monthly19d
Medicaid Work Requirements Don’t Work
On Sunday, he said on CBS's "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that Medicaid work requirements have a "moral component" to them because people on Medicaid who "refuse" to work are "defrauding ...
CBS News19d
House Speaker Mike Johnson says Medicaid work requirements in Trump's "big, beautiful bill" have a "moral component"
House Speaker Mike Johnson, who shepherded President Trump's "one big, beautiful bill" through Congress, said Sunday that the Medicaid work requirements — which could affect his home state of ...
Fast Company22d
Why Medicaid work requirements place extra burdens on low-income families
Lawmakers in Congress and in statehouses have debated whether to add work requirements for Medicaid before. More than a dozen states have applied for waivers that would let them give it a try.
CBS News22d
Medicaid recipients could face work requirements under GOP bill. Here are the details.
Some policy experts who study Medicaid, food stamps and other social safety net programs say that there's little evidence that work requirements increase employment, partly because most people who ...
Newsweek23d
New Medicaid Work Requirements 'Impossible' for People To Navigate
Languages: English. Medicaid work requirements, under consideration as part of the House Republicans' budget to cut federal spending, are "impossible" to navigate for those using the program ...
The Salt Lake Tribune29d
Opinion: Medicaid work requirements are cruel and pointless
House Republicans have proposed adding work requirements to Medicaid, the health insurance program serving tens of millions of low-income Americans. Their plan, unveiled Sunday, would, with a few ...
Yahoo29d
Americans Like Medicaid—But They Also Like Work Requirements
The Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill making its way through the House of Representatives is almost certain to cut Medicaid in a number of ways—one being that it would require the ...