Georgia and Arkansas' Medicaid work rules may preview the road ahead
President Donald Trump is expected Friday to sign into law his sprawling domestic policy bill, which includes nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans.
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Medicaid is jointly funded by the federal government and the states, which usually mandate that applicants meet certain criteria, such as low income, disability or caregiving status.
Only two states have implemented Medicaid work requirements: Arkansas in 2018 and Georgia in 2023. Georgia’s program, called Pathways to Coverage, remains in effect.
Over the 10 months Arkansas’ work requirement was in place, more than 18,000 people in the state lost Medicaid coverage. Georgia hasn’t done a good job keeping track of how many have lost coverage, but enrollment remains low, said Leighton Ku, director of the Center for Health Policy Research at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University.
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