Sara Rosenbaum, Rebecca Morris, Erin Brantley, and Leighton Ku
February 8, 2021
The Trump Administration’s Deeply Flawed Assumptions That Underlie its Medicaid Compelled Work Experiments
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.
Blog: Medicaid Work Requirement Experiments Could Prove Costly for Thousands of Patients and Staff
By Jessica Sharac, Peter Shin, and Sara Rosenbaum
Between 120,000 and 169,000 adult Medicaid health center patients across seven states could lose coverage for comprehensive and primary health care as a result of § 1115 work requirement programs approved by the current administration.
Brief Calls on U.S. District Court to Strike Down New Hampshire’s Medicaid Work Experiment
The brief calls New Hampshire’s Medicaid work experiment “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion and contrary to law.”
New Report Estimates That Up to 43,000 in Montana Could Lose Health Coverage Due to Medicaid Work Requirements
Parents of young children, caregivers for the disabled, seasonal workers and other poor people in rural areas of Montana would be most affected.