Study Finds Medicaid Work Requirements Did Not Boost Employment

The first major academic study of Medicaid work requirements concludes that, after work requirements took effect in Arkansas last year, the policy caused thousands of people to lose health insurance but did not boost employment among low-income people. The findings, published Wednesday (June 19) in the New England Journal of Medicine by public health researchers at Harvard, contradict predictions from the Trump administration and Arkansas officials that work requirements would help lift Medicaid beneficiaries out of poverty. Arkansas became...