The Department of Health and Human Services broadened its attack on work requirements in state Medicaid programs, informing Michigan and Wisconsin that it is withdrawing approval for must-work provisions approved during the Trump administration.
The move came three weeks after the HHS took similar action against Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas and New Hampshire, and over a month after the department informed Michigan and Wisconsin officials that it had preliminarily concluded work and community-engagement requirements don’t promote the objectives of the Medicaid program.
Requiring poor adults to work as a condition of receiving health care would likely decrease Medicaid ...