US EditionWork Requirements and Red Tape Ahead for Millions on Medicaid
GEORGIA, AUG 4 – Georgia's Medicaid work requirements have led to coverage losses for thousands amid costly administrative challenges, with fewer than 20% of eligible beneficiaries enrolled after two years.
- The Republicans' tax-and-spending law mandates that most low-income adults start meeting Medicaid work requirements by 2027 to keep coverage nationwide.
- This follows state-level trials like Arkansas in 2018 and Georgia's ongoing program, which began after getting federal waiver approval and has faced administrative challenges.
- Georgia requires Medicaid recipients to verify that they engage for at least 80 hours each month in employment, schooling, job training, or volunteer work, and they must submit proof through a monthly reporting system that has been criticized for technical difficulties.
- Health advocates and recipients like social worker Tanisha Corporal report long delays, paperwork denials, difficult contact with officials, and estimate just under 7,500 enrolled despite projections of 47,000.
- Experts say work requirements likely reduce coverage rather than raise employment, with the Congressional Budget Office projecting 4.8 million losses among 18.5 million subject, suggesting widespread bureaucratic barriers ahead.
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Medicaid is the government program that is supposed to help the poor afford health care. Its cost to taxpayers has skyrocketed in the last few years, consuming more than 12% of federal tax revenue collected by 2025.
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Now that the Republicans’ big tax-and-spending bill has become law, new bureaucratic hurdles have emerged for millions of Americans who rely on Medicaid for health coverage. A provision in the new law dictates that, in most states, for the first time, low-income adults must start meeting work requirements to keep their coverage. Some states have already tried doing this, but Georgia is the only state that has an active system using work requirem…
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