Changes to Medicaid could leave thousands of South Dakotans uninsured and impair an already fragile rural health care system, ...

Political battle erupts over Medicaid work requirements as Republicans frame them as preserving the safety net while ...

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act ignites debate—supporters praise welfare reform, while critics fear harm to vulnerable ...

President Donald Trump signed legislation that mandates some Medicaid recipients prove they're working, volunteering, or completing other qualifying activities at least 80 hours a month to maintain ...

The federal budget bill recently signed into law requires states to implement work requirements for adults in Medicaid expansion programs by 2029. Much of the attention given to this ...

The Trump administration's legislative proposal to introduce work requirements for Medicaid has narrowly passed the House of Representatives, igniting a heated debate. Speaker of the House, Mike ...

Sustained engagement with work is essential to helping Medicaid recipients achieve independence and maintaining a well-functioning safety net, as it empowers people to escape poverty and improve ...

But it doesn’t. Arkansas tried Medicaid work requirements seven years ago. The state used the requirements to remove 18,000 adults from the Medicaid rolls in just four months.

Lost in the current debate over imposing “work requirements” for Medicaid eligibility has been how such requirements might actually benefit recipients and what “work-free Medicaid ...

His comments are the latest in a familiar debate, as supporters cite work requirements as a path out of poverty, while critics decry the measures as punitive barriers to care. Both sides are ...

As states mull Medicaid work requirements, 2 with experience scale back By Renuka Rayasam, KFF Health News, Sam Whitehead, Kaiser Health News Feb 14, 2025 4:46pm ...

Expanding work requirements to SNAP and Medicaid, for example, must come with investments in education, training, and services. Third, the TANF experience shows that many single mothers left the ...