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===== We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos. ===== | |||
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/opinion/medicaid-work-requirements-arkansas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NU8.wJE1._9ddBnCcgVCO&smid=url-share by Erik Carter 8/6/25 The New York Times] | |||
Many of the Republicans pushing for Medicaid work requirements — permanent program cuts that will strip up to 14 million people of their health care coverage — likely have no idea what it takes to comply with them. | |||
===== The US doesn’t have universal health care — but these states (almost) do ===== | ===== The US doesn’t have universal health care — but these states (almost) do ===== | ||
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We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.
by Erik Carter 8/6/25 The New York Times
Many of the Republicans pushing for Medicaid work requirements — permanent program cuts that will strip up to 14 million people of their health care coverage — likely have no idea what it takes to comply with them.
The US doesn’t have universal health care — but these states (almost) do
Overall, the number of uninsured Americans has fallen from 46.5 million in 2010, the year President Barack Obama signed his signature health care law, to about 26 million today. The US health system still has plenty of flaws — beyond the 8 percent of the population who are uninsured, far higher than in peer countries, many of the people who technically have health insurance still find it difficult to cover their share of their medical bills. Nevertheless, more people enjoy some financial protection against health care expenses than in any previous period in US history.
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