4,300 Lose Medicaid Coverage In Arkansas Over New Work Requirement

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — More than 4,300 people who were on Arkansas’ expanded Medicaid rolls have lost coverage because they didn’t comply with a new work requirement, making them the first to get kicked off the program under the rule.

The Arkansas Department of Human Services on Wednesday said another 5,000 people on the program will lose coverage if they don’t meet the work requirement by the end of this month.

Arkansas was the first state to enforce the requirement after the Trump administration said it would allow states to tie Medicaid coverage to work. Under the requirement, beneficiaries must report at least 80 hours of work each month for three months in a year.

The state says more than 62,000 people were subject to the requirement last month.

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  1. Feature not a bug and they will continue to vote Republican
    Take that Obama!!!

  2. Just out of a sense of morbid curiosity, I wonder how many of those kicked off medicare actually voted for the Orange Shitstain?

  3. " The Arkansas Department of Human Services on Wednesday said another 5,000 people on the program will lose coverage if they don’t meet the work requirement by the end of this month."

    “All them quadriplegics and chemo kids need to get off their duffs and start working like the rest of us!”

    (“Now where’d I put my Medicare check?”)

  4. Thing is, no one really had to enact this work requirement. It was a wish among some to do just this one thing, to save money.

    Never mind that people who lose coverage will go to emergency rooms for healthcare after a little problem becomes an overwhelming one.

  5. It may be harder for them to do that if they are rural.

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