Column: The red-state craze for useless and costly Medicaid work requirements is fading fast
published in September found that in the group targeted by the first phase of the Arkansas policy — those aged 30 to 49 — coverage from Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplace plans declined by a stunning 12 percentage points.
Medicaid work rules, in short, have turned out to be pound-foolish without ever having shown the virtue of being penny-wise. Finding that Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar hadn’t bothered to look into the possibility of mass disenrollments, Boasberg also blocked the Kentucky policy. His rulings that the approval of work rules by HHS was “arbitrary and capricious” under the law have prompted several of the other states contemplating such rules to think twice.As CBPP’s Schubel reports, here’s the current state of play of Medicaid work requirements among states other than Kentucky and Arkansas.
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