Medicaid rolls set to be slashed under Trump-approved work rules

Seema Verma, Head of the US Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Credit: Getty Images

The thousands of people who lost Medicaid coverage this month in Arkansas for not following newly implemented work requirements may be a sign of what’s to come in other GOP-led states.

Indiana and New Hampshire are slated to implement their Medicaid work requirements next year, and a slew of other states are awaiting approval from the Trump administration to do so.

Arkansas has served as a test case of sorts since it was the first state to implement work requirements, and this month it became the first state to kick off beneficiaries for not following them.

View the complete September 13 article by Jessie Hellmann on the Hill website here.