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Medicaid work requirements violate program's intent, scholars say

Modern Healthcare: More than 40 public health scholars on Friday stepped into a lawsuit challenging Kentucky's plan to enact work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries. They argue the policy contradicts the intent of the Medicaid demonstration statute to improve the program, and that unintended consequences could lead to massive revenue drops for health centers.

In an amicus brief, scholars and deans of schools of public health—including those of Columbia, Boston, Yale and UCLA as well as prominent health law scholars like Sara Rosenbaum of George Washington University and Abbe Gluck of Yale—alleged that ratcheting back coverage will make the work requirements' impact harsher and have reverberating effects on healthcare in the communities where beneficiaries are losing Medicaid.

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