Experts: Medicaid Work Requirement Won't Have Big Impact On Enrollees, Economy

The Trump administration is preparing to approve work requirements in the Medicaid program, a move many former Obama officials have criticized and stakeholders are planning to fight, but experts say that work requirements would not cause a large number of Medicaid recipients to lose coverage, nor would such requirements significantly benefit the economy or workforce. Three percent of the 9.8 million non-working Medicaid recipients would lose coverage due to newly imposed work requirements, according to a February analysis from the...