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#Trump’s New #Medicaid #WorkRequirements Are Here

It’s just cruelty.

On Friday, #Nebraska became the first state to enact Medicaid work requirements, mandatory for states with Medicaid expansion due to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Notably, the state did it 7 months before the deadline.

Now, ~70k adults below the age of 65 in Nebraska who have Medicaid through its expansion could risk having their #HealthInsurance ripped away from them.

#law #HealthInequity
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/trumps-new-medicaid-work-requirements-are-here/

Trump's new Medicaid work requirements are here

It's just cruelty.

Mother Jones

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Nonilex 4d ago

#Medicaid #WorkRequirements do not increase employment. Instead, the administrative burden of work requirements only serves to kick people off this governmental #HealthInsurance. Additionally, a majority of people on Medicaid, who are not on Supplemental Security Income, work full or part-time jobs. This underlines how rhetoric around work requirements is just false.

#Trump #law #PublicHealth #SocialCleansing #HealthInequity #EconomicDiscrimination #Health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #plutocracy

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Nonilex

The Center on Budget & Policy Priorities also highlighted that there is not enough time to implement what could be considered less cruel systems for #Medicaid #WorkRequirements. The center called for work requirements to be pulled, “but short of that, states need more time to ensure their policies, systems, & staffing plans are in place to minimize the number of eligible people whose #healthcare is taken away.”

#Trump #law #PublicHealth #HealthInsurance #SocialCleansing #HealthInequity #Health

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Nonilex 4d ago

This also highlights the cruelty of Nebraska’s implementation of work requirements before the Jan 1, 2027 deadline.

Especially because an interim rule from the #HHS Secretary #RFKJr is not even due until June 1.

#Trump #law #PublicHealth #HealthInsurance #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #HealthInequity #EconomicDiscrimination #Health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #plutocracy #USpol

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Nonilex 4d ago

Concerns about what the interim rule from #RFKJr could look like:

A person with debilitating #ChronicPain, or a serious #AutoimmuneDisease, may appear “able-bodied” by the standards RFK Jr appears poised to implement—even as they face hurdles in qualifying for #SocialSecurity #disability due to not being considered #disabled “enough”.

#Trump #law #Medicaid #HealthInsurance #SocialCleansing #HealthInequity #EconomicDiscrimination #PublicHealth #Health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #plutocracy #USpol

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Nonilex 4d ago

#HHS declined to answer a series of questions for this article, instead offering a general statement that the agency “remains committed to protecting & strengthening #Medicaid for those who rely on it…while eliminating waste, fraud, & abuse.”

#Trump #law #HealthInsurance #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #HealthInequity #EconomicDiscrimination #PublicHealth #Health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #plutocracy #USpol

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Nonilex 4d ago

During the congressional debate over the #law last year, #Republicans pushed #WorkRequirements for #Medicaid as a way to get "able-bodied" adults benefiting from government assistance into the workforce. #House Speaker #MikeJohnson said it would help preserve Medicaid "for people who rightly deserve it," not young men "sitting on their couches playing video games." [that’s not who uses Medicaid, but Republicans new “Welfare Queen” lie.]

#Trump #HealthInsurance #health
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/01/nx-s1-5806260/trump-medicaid-work-requirements-nebraska-big-beautiful-bill-hr1-obbba