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Medicaid expansion was a recognition that low-income Americans of all ages need, and deserve, health insurance, and that such a step is essential to a properly functioning health care system. Forcing states to knock down the very health equity foundation they have built would truly be a “shift in kind.
The prospect of a work requirement for able-bodied Medicaid recipients is sparking fears. The measure is part of a sweeping federal spending bill supported by President Donald Trump that has cleared the House and is now being considered by the Senate.
A new Senate plan would tie Medicaid to 80-hour work requirements. Up to 5 million Americans could lose coverage, CBO warns.
Medicaid work requirements are part of the version of President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" that cleared the House last month and is now up for consideration in the Senate. Trump is seeking to have it passed by July 4.
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Econostrum on MSNMedicaid Enrollees Worry About Losing Health Coverage Under New Work RequirementsA new bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives has sparked concern among millions of Medicaid recipients. If passed by the Senate, the bill would impose work requirements on many individuals receiving Medicaid benefits,
Stricter Medicaid eligibility checks look destined to be included in President Donald Trump-backed reconciliation legislation charging through Congress, dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill. | Medicaid plans want Congress to let managed care organizations text members,
Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law June 6 requiring tens of thousands of Iowans on Medicaid to work or lose their health care coverage.
In defending Trump's signature spending bill—which could cut millions from the Medicaid rolls over the next decade—Kentucky Congressman Brett Guthrie said a study suggests millions of able-bodied people on the program are misusing time that could be spent at a job or benefiting the community.
More than a dozen people raised concerns and questions about unintentionally separating patients from their health care with South Dakota’s proposed Medicaid expansion work requirements.
The health policy nonprofit KFF estimated between 120,000 and 190,000 people in Colorado could lose their insurance, mostly through falling off the Medicaid rolls, over the next 10 years.