Counterpoint: Medicaid Work Requirements Increase Bureaucracy, Not Accountability

Counterpoint: Medicaid Work Requirements Increase Bureaucracy, Not Accountability

For an alternate viewpoint, see “Point: Work Requirements Are a Common-Sense Reform.” When Republicans were looking for ways to reduce the cost of their One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBBA), one of the first offsets they incorporated was a federal work requirement for Medicaid. Proponents claimed this “common-sense” policy would grow the economy by increasing employment and cut wasteful spending on “lazy,” able-bodied people who chose not to seek work…