What Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Tells Us About the Costs of the “Big Beautiful Bill”
What Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Tells Us About the Costs of the “Big Beautiful Bill”
This article examines the potential consequences of a national Medicaid work requirement by analyzing Georgia's program, the only one of its kind. Implemented in July 2023, Georgia's experiment has resulted in extremely low enrollment due to bureaucratic hurdles, despite most eligible individuals already being employed. The piece argues that a similar federal mandate, proposed by Congressional Republicans to offset tax cuts, could jeopardize healthcare for nearly 16 million Americans and impose hundreds of millions of dollars in administrative costs on states, drawing parallels to a previously halted program in Arkansas.
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the concept of giving away things for free is, for better or for mostly worse, un-american.
and yet, we can't seem to agree that a life of 20-50 years of work is worth seeing as a reward for a sane retirement.
then to layer on work requirements and bureaucratic nightmare of paperwork (while knowing the goal is to remove the benefit entirely for a future generation) feels cruel, especially when it ends up being more costly than to not do it.
i imagine the costs are daunting, but pervasive health care and retirement feel like a good goal and a worth replacement for the flying cars and space travel that we never ended up achieving...
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