Medicaid’s growth isn’t sustainable. And it’s unjust to pay states more for signing up able-bodied adults than the destitute people Medicaid was created to serve.
Earlier this month, Nebraska became the first state to implement the Medicaid work requirements established by last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act — now renamed by Republicans as the working families tax cuts. Dozens of others are scrambling to follow suit before the January deadline.
Democrats and much of the media have portrayed work requirements as a cruel and unnecessary attack on healthcare access — one that could deprive millions of people of coverage.
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Deflating the controversy over Medicaid work requirements
Sally C. Pipes
Medicaid’s growth isn’t sustainable. And it’s unjust to pay states more for signing up able-bodied adults than the destitute people Medicaid was created to serve.
Earlier this month, Nebraska became the first state to implement the Medicaid work requirements established by last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act — now renamed by Republicans as the working families tax cuts. Dozens of others are scrambling to follow suit before the January deadline.
Democrats and much of the media have portrayed work requirements as a cruel and unnecessary attack on healthcare access — one that could deprive millions of people of coverage.
Read the entire op-ed here.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.