States try to revive Medicaid work requirements, worrying some low-income Americans
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States try to revive Medicaid work requirements, worrying some low-income Americans
More than 70 million Americans who are low-income or disabled have health insurance paid for by the state and federal government called Medicaid. The main qualification currently is that you have to make below a certain income level. But there's an idea that's been popular with Republicans – that all those individuals should also be required to work.While Republicans introduced a bill to create a national work requirement, states have a lot of flexibility to add their own rules. Arkansas and 12 other states got the greenlight to add these work requirements during the first Trump Administration, but after just ..