The GOP’s plan could throw millions off Medicaid — and that’s just the start

In an op-ed published by MSNBC, Andrea Ducas explains how disastrous House Republicans’ Medicaid work requirements proposal would be.

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In the latest front of their war on the poor, Republicans in Congress are trotting out what could be one of their biggest health policy failures ever: Medicaid work requirements.

Republicans frame these mandates as a way to encourage people to work. But work requirements fail to increase employment, while only succeeding at tossing millions of people off Medicaid. And that’s exactly what Republicans in Congress are banking on.

The above excerpt was originally published in MSNBC. Click here to view the full article.

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The GOP’s plan could throw millions off Medicaid — and that’s just the start