A federal judge blocked Medicaid work requirements in two states, dealing a blow to one of the Trump administration's marquee efforts to push the poor toward self-sufficiency.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.A federal judge blocked Medicaid work requirements in two states on Wednesday, dealing a blow to one of the Trump administration's marquee efforts to push the poor toward self-sufficiency.
Both states want"able-bodied" adults who get health insurance through the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion to work, study, volunteer or participate in"community engagement" activities. Instead, he wrote that HHS approval of the Arkansas requirement was"arbitrary and capricious because it did not address ...whether and how the project would implicate the 'core' objective of Medicaid: the provision of medical coverage to the needy."Nationally, some 12 million people are covered by the Medicaid expansion, accepted now by more than 30 states.
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