Morgan Handley and Sara Rosenbaum
Blog: Coverage of Thousands on the Line as Court of Appeals Reviews Kentucky’s Section 1115 Case
By Morgan Birdy and Teodor Handarov
Sixty-three public health scholars, including 10 deans of schools of public health, public policy, and public administration, recently filed two amicus curiae briefs urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to uphold two lower-court decisions blocking Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and Arkansas and prevent up to 184,000 Medicaid beneficiaries in those states from losing healthcare coverage in the first year of the experiment alone.