Judge blocks Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky, Arkansas
By Amy Goldstein Amy Goldstein Reporter covering health-care policy and other social policy issues Email Bio Follow March 27 at 5:26 PM A federal judge in Washington threw a significant roadblock into the Trump administration’s efforts to require poor people on Medicaid to be compelled to work in exchange for health benefits, rejecting a Kentucky program for a second time while saying that rules in effect in Arkansas “cannot stand.
The rulings came nine months after Boasberg, a judicial appointee of President Barack Obama, first signaled his disapproval of the way President Trump’s health aides were handling the issue. Two days before Kentucky was to begin its new “community engagement” requirements, the judge stopped the state in its tracks.
Administration officials, and a growing cadre of Republican governors, contend that such rules motivate low-income people to find work that will help them climb the economic ladder and eventually become self-sufficient, no longer needing public insurance. His ruling sent Kentucky’s request to begin its program back to HHS for another review. Five months later, the department reapproved Kentucky’s plan without any changes. The state had been preparing its delayed launch of Kentucky HEALTH, as it calls its program, on April 1, with the work rules to begin this summer.
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