The GOP Keeps Pushing Medicaid Work Requirements, Despite Setbacks

Work requirements in Medicaid expansion programs are back on the agenda in many statehouses — despite their lackluster track record. In Mississippi, the idea has momentum from GOP lawmakers advancing legislation to expand Medicaid. In Kansas, the Democratic governor proposed work requirements to try to soften Republican opposition to expansion. (She’s had little luck, so far.) The controversial policy even has fresh traction in states that expanded Medicaid years ago, including Idaho and Louisiana.