Fortune
Lindsay Koshgarian
01/18/2018
The Trump administration moved recently to allow states to require “proof of work” for Medicaid recipients.
The idea is punitive and counter-productive—not to mention hypocritical.
The new work requirements would affect a minority of Medicaid recipients: The two-thirds of Medicaid recipients who are elderly, have disabilities, are children, or are pregnant won’t be required to work. Neither, supposedly, will “medically frail” people with conditions like cancer in Kentucky, the one state that already has a plan in place.
But it’s worth taking a closer look at who would be affected, and how.
