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The Minimal Responsibilities And Unintended Consequences Of Medicaid Work Requirements

The Trump administration unveiled a rule implementing the Medicaid work requirements included in last year’s budget reconciliation law.

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The Trump administration recently unveiled a rule implementing the Medicaid work requirements included in last year’s budget reconciliation law. The rule strikes a reasonable balance designed to encourage participation in labor markets while not being unduly burdensome to states or beneficiaries.

The welfare industrial complex has protested that the requirements will lead individuals to lose insurance coverage. But an examination of the law’s intricacies shows that beneficiaries in many jurisdictions can comply by working what averages out to just over an hour per week. Moreover, in one of its unintended consequences, work requirements may end up encouraging increases in state and/or federal minimum wage, which generally reduce employment and........

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