Federal Court Invalidates Michigan Medicaid Work Rule (1)

A federal court has struck the work requirement for Michigan Medicaid beneficiaries that the state estimated could have cut 80,000 low-income residents from the health insurance program that serves as a safety net for poor people.

Judge James E. Boasberg on Wednesday blocked Michigan from enforcing work requirements for roughly 650,000 recipients of the state’s expanded Medicaid program.

The decision comes one day after the Department of Justice conceded in a motion that the work requirements are unlawful under current precedent from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where Boasberg sits, as well as the D.C. Court ...