Georgia, the only state with a Medicaid work mandate, started experimenting with the requirement on July 1, 2023. As the Medicaid program's two-year anniversary approaches, Georgia has enrolled just a fraction of those eligible, a result health policy researchers largely attribute to bureaucratic hurdles in the state's work verification system. As of May 2025, approximately 7,500 of the nearly 250,000 eligible Georgians were enrolled, even though state statistics show 64% of that group is working.

NEW: GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump's proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia's example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. By @savmargaret.bsky.social

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