Governing

Medicaid’s Newest Reform Is a Morass of Red Tape

In a summer 2024 press conference, Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, launched a video featuring a 54-year-old ...
Yahoo

As Republicans weigh Medicaid work requirements, Georgia offers a warning

Two years ago, Georgia began allowing low-income adults to join Medicaid on the condition that they work or train for a job. Republicans now tout the state as a model of compassionate cost-saving ...
Yahoo

Georgia’s Medicaid work program gets extended

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved Georgia’s request to extend the Pathways to Coverage program.
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How will Georgia manage changes to SNAP and Medicaid rules? State leaders are figuring it out

More than 3 million people in Georgia participate in Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). All of those programs will face historic cuts following the passage of President ...
Alaska Public Media

Do 'work requirements' in Medicaid work? Georgia's been trying it for two years.

Now that Republicans' big tax-and-spending bill has become law, there will be new bureaucratic hurdles for millions of Americans who rely on Medicaid. The new law contains a provision that in most ...
MM&M

Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program spent twice as much on administrative costs as healthcare, GAO says

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Most ...
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Ga. Medicaid work mandate is extended despite its red tape

ATLANTA - Georgia’s program that provides health insurance to some low-income adults that document work or other activities has been extended for 15 months by President Donald Trump’s administration.
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The firm running Georgia’s struggling Medicaid experiment was also paid millions to sell it to the public

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. When ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Georgia’s experience raises red flags for Medicaid work requirement moving through Congress

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s experiment with a work requirement for Medicaid offers a test of a similar mandate Republicans in Congress want to implement nationally, and advocates say the results so far ...
WSB-TV

Georgia’s Medicaid work program gets extended

ATLANTA — The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved Georgia’s request to extend the Pathways to Coverage program. According to a release from the governor’s office, the program will ...
Houston Public Media

Do 'work requirements' in Medicaid work? Georgia's been trying it for two years

Now that Republicans' big tax-and-spending bill has become law, there will be new bureaucratic hurdles for millions of Americans who rely on Medicaid. The new law contains a provision that in most ...
MedPage Today

Georgia's Experience Raises Red Flags for Medicaid Work Requirement Nationwide

Georgia's experiment with a work requirement for Medicaid offers a test of a similar mandate Republicans in Congress want to implement nationally, and advocates say the results so far should serve as ...