City Lab
By: Dwyer Gunn
Earlier this month, the Trump administration informed states that the federal government would now be open to state-level initiatives to impose work requirements or other conditions on Medicaid recipients. A number of red states had proposed such changes in years past but were rebuffed by the Obama administration.
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These changes are projected to have huge effects on Kentucky’s Medicaid expansion population. The state itself projects the changes will reduce enrollment by approximately 90,000 over the course of the demonstration. And as Joan Alker, the executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, points out, these effects will likely be particularly painful in poor, rural areas. Kentucky is home to 6 of the 10 rural counties that have the highest percentage of adults on Medicaid.
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