Judge Blocks Medicaid Work Requirements In Arkansas, Kentucky

A federal judge on Wednesday (March 27) again rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to add work requirements to Medicaid, blocking one such program from taking effect in Kentucky and canceling another program in Arkansas under which more than 18,000 people lost coverage. The rulings are the latest legal setback for one of the administration’s top health care priorities: helping red-state governors remake Medicaid into a more conservative program in which coverage is tied to employment. Judge James Boasberg ruled that...