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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 ...

Medicaid Work Requirements Go Live Soon. Here’s How Many Could Lose Coverage

Medicaid work requirements start going live this summer. What early states Nebraska and Montana reveal about who how many ...
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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 ...
The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionOpinion

Affordable Care Act turns 16, but Georgia still hasn’t expanded Medicaid

Georgia is one of only 10 states that has not fully expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, and those states' health ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...