Mother Jones
By: Noah Lanard
The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it will support work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries for the first time in the program’s history. Its justification: cutting insurance for low-income Americans who don’t work will improve their health.
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Joan Alker, the executive director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, tells Mother Jones that it’s clear from the way the announcement was crafted that CMS is preparing for a legal challenge. Leonardo Cuello, the National Health Law Program’s health policy director, told the Washington Post that they would be looking “very, very closely to the legal options” if CMS approves work requirements, adding that the policy shift is “not a good idea, and it’s illegal.”
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