Washington Post

By: Colby Itkowitz

… Medicaid is currently at a crossroads. The Trump administration is pressing forward with efforts to allow states to add work requirements to be eligible for the coverage at the same time as three red states, Nebraska, Utah and Idaho, are giving voters the chance to decide on whether to implement expansion through November ballot initiatives. What happens in this debate could determine the future of the safety net program for the poorest Americans.

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In Arkansas, the first state to implement work requirements, 83 percent of beneficiaries who were supposed to go online to report activity didn’t, according to Joan Alker, a law professor at Georgetown University, who tracks these programs. “With two strikes against them, it’s clear that many beneficiaries appear to be unaware that they were even sent up to bat,” she wrote in a blog post.

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