| Looming Medicaid Cuts Could End in Disaster. The Trump Administration Just Paused Them for Six Months. States will not be forced to implement new Medicaid work requirements until mid-2027, the administration announced Friday. The new rules, which were set to kick in on January 1st, mandate that many Medicaid recipients fill out burdensome new paperwork about their employment, while 'medically frail' Medicaid patients prove yearly they are unable to work full-time, even if they have already been diagnosed with a debilitating condition and were previously enrolled in the federally-funded health insurance for low-income people. |