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Recent Experience Shows National Medicaid Work Requirements Would Create Enormous Administrative Inefficiencies

The US health care system is already larded with bureaucracy; administrative costs account for nearly a third of total health care expenditures. Medicaid work requirements look set to siphon even more ... read more

So-called work requirements for Medicaid in Trump’s bill threaten health care access for us all

The Republican plan saves money within Medicaid by denying people access to health care based on bureaucratic paperwork errors. read more

Medicaid Work Requirements Have Mostly Failed. The GOP Is Still Pushing Them.

President Trump’s tax-and-spending bill aims to require many Americans to work to collect Medicaid. Similar efforts in Georgia and Arkansas have largely fallen flat. read more

Republicans Pass Strictest Medicaid Work Requirement They’ve Ever Put Forward

Arkansas put in a work requirement in 2018 for people enrolled in the Medicaid expansion. It allowed beneficiaries to miss three months of reporting before losing coverage. read more

Medicaid work requirements would kick hardworking people off health care coverage, Sen. Warnock says - MSN

Based on the current proposal, 9.7 million to 14.4 million people would be at risk for losing Medicaid coverage in 2034 if they are unable to show they meet the work requirements, according to a ... read more

Medicaid Work Requirements Don’t Work — They Harm People with Disabilities | ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union

Medicaid is a lifeline for the 70 million people enrolled in the program, including 15 million people with disabilities. Their access to care is now in jeopardy because members of the Senate have ... read more

Sanders announces proposed work requirement for Arkansas’ Medicaid expansion program - Texarkana Gazette

Unlike the state's previous Medicaid work requirement, ARHOME recipients would not lose Medicaid coverage if they failed to meet the requirement outlined in Sanders' proposal. read more

Work requirements could strip 5 million people of Medicaid: Report

Historical data from Arkansas and New Hampshire, which briefly implemented work requirements, shows that 72% to 82% of enrollees lost coverage due to reporting issues, not failure to meet work ... read more

Republicans pass strictest Medicaid work requirement they have ever put forward - The Seattle Times

Arkansas put in a work requirement in 2018 for people enrolled in the Medicaid expansion. It allowed beneficiaries to miss three months of reporting before losing coverage. read more

Medicaid work requirements would kick hardworking people off health-care coverage, Sen. Warnock says - NBC Los Angeles

Based on the current proposal, 9.7 million to 14.4 million people would be at risk for losing Medicaid coverage in 2034 if they are unable to show they meet the work requirements, according to a ... read more

Medicaid Work Requirements Don’t Work — They Harm People with Disabilities - American Civil Liberties Union

Medicaid is a lifeline for the 70 million people enrolled in the program, including 15 million people with disabilities. Their access to care is now in jeopardy because members of the Senate have ... read more

Medicaid work requirements would kick hardworking people off health-care coverage, Sen. Warnock says - NBC10 Philadelphia

Based on the current proposal, 9.7 million to 14.4 million people would be at risk for losing Medicaid coverage in 2034 if they are unable to show they meet the work requirements, according to a ... read more