Document Type
Response or Comment
Publication Date
3-2018
Abstract
On January 12, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved a waiver allowing Kentucky to impose a work requirement on some nondisabled Medicaid beneficiaries. Similar waivers are sure to follow. Supporters see work requirements as a spur to force the idle poor to work; opponents see the requirements as a covert means of withholding medical care from vulnerable people. Setting the policy debate aside, however, are work requirements legal?
Recommended Citation
Bagley, Nicholas. "Are Medicaid Work Requirements Legal?" JAMA 319, no. 8 (2018): 763-4.
Comments
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