{"id":10831,"date":"2018-07-02T08:08:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T12:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10831"},"modified":"2018-07-02T08:08:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T12:08:43","slug":"judge-blocks-kentucky-medicaid-work-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10831","title":{"rendered":"Judge Blocks Kentucky Medicaid Work Requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge on Friday\u00a0struck down a Trump administration decision allowing states to force low-income adults to work to qualify for Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a060-page ruling, which is likely to be appealed, was hailed by advocates for the poor. But it could limit the number of states expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Secretary never adequately considered whether [the work requirement] would in fact help the state furnish medical assistance to its citizens, a central objective of Medicaid,\u201d wrote Judge James Boasberg. \u201cThis signal omission renders his determination arbitrary and capricious.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/judge-blocks-kentucky-medicaid-work-requirement\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=64172296&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8e9jiitNEQqjMtgwm1E1hH462XTEtrQZ2i0wodqCiSulExQYIKUQVZgWL58f3QS8b-iOI1ybqFEgc8JjtEm8Bss3BFIQ&amp;_hsmi=64172296\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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