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Work Requirements May Be Just the Beginning of Trump's Health Care Changes for the Poor

Governing: After months of speculation, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) opened the door on Thursday for states to require some low-income people to work in order to qualify for government-sponsored health insurance.

It’s a “large and sharp reversal” from Medicaid in the past, says Judith Solomon, vice president of health policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Conservative states had asked the Obama administration many times to allow them to impose work requirements. It continually refused, arguing that the policy goes against the goals of the program, which are to give more people access to health insurance.

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