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Medicaid work requirement in Kentucky gets second approval

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has again approved a waiver for Kentucky to impose a work requirement for able-bodied Medicaid beneficiaries as a condition to receiving the benefit. CMS previously, on January 12, approved Kentucky’s request for a 1115 demonstration project waiver that included work requirements.  However, in June, a district court judge… Read More »

Stacey Abrams Hopes Medicaid Expansion Can Be a Winning Issue in Rural Georgia

ATLANTA — For the upscale urban audience at a campaign town hall here, it would have been enough for Stacey Abrams to pitch Medicaid expansion as a moral issue — the health-care-as-human-right argument that appeals to progressives everywhere. Instead, Ms. Abrams, the Democrat in the tossup race for Georgia governor, stuck to the pragmatic line… Read More »