Medicaid work requirements to cause over 5,000 low-income Arkansans to lose health care

ThinkProgress

By: Amanda Gomez

In Arkansas, residents on Medicaid need to report 80-hours-a-month of work or service online to keep their health insurance under new requirements. So far, more than 5,000 people have failed to do so, jeopardizing their continuous coverage.

The state data also has health experts further speculating the intent of Arkansas’ work requirement. Joan Alker, a Georgetown University public-policy professor who follows Medicaid closely, asked on Twitter, “Failing system or intended consequence?”

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