Democratic states are pushing back on the Trump administration’s rules for new Medicaid work requirements, warning that a chaotic rollout in the coming months could lead to even more people losing their coverage. The first-ever work requirements in last year’s Republican tax-and-spending bill were already controversial — but now there are new clashes over the way the administration wants to implement them. Six Democratic governors led by Oregon’s Tina Kotek last week called on the administration to “stop forcing states into an unworkable rollout” of the requirements by a Jan. 1 deadline.
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