{"id":36718,"date":"2026-06-04T16:19:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/36718\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T16:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:19:44","slug":"new-medicaid-work-requirements-not-a-realistic-and-successful-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/36718\/","title":{"rendered":"New Medicaid work requirements ‘not a realistic and successful strategy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tara covers the business of health care. Her stories focus on hospitals, doctors, and how their business practices affect patients \u2014 especially when private equity gets involved. She also writes about health insurance and ideas for improving our broken health system. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70.<\/p>\n

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Medicaid leaders and advocates say they\u2019re shocked by the Trump administration\u2019s harsh directives for implementing Medicaid work requirements, which they say mark a pivot from how federal officials had characterized their plans just weeks ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Much of the conversation around the nearly 400-page rule<\/a> that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released Monday<\/a> afternoon centers on one of the ways that people can be exempted from work requirements: medical frailty. Getting that exemption will be more difficult than most people had expected, meaning that more sick and disabled people are likely to lose their Medicaid coverage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is where we\u2019ll see large and harmful coverage losses,\u201d said Benjamin Sommers, an economics professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. \u201cThis is a population that has high medical needs and is at major risk for harm if they lose coverage. That is the headline implication of the new rule.\u201d<\/p>\n

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