Vox
By: Dylan Scott
Any day now, we should be getting a federal court ruling on whether Kentucky and the Trump administration can legally require many Medicaid recipients to work. US District Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee, heard oral arguments on June 15 in the lawsuit to block the state’s work requirements. He said he planned to rule by the end of the month because the state is set to begin implementing the new rules on July 1.
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”It was just a threat to the judge,” Joan Alker with Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families told me. “He could terminate the waiver and expansion with six months’ notice if CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid] agreed.”
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