The prospect of a work requirement for able-bodied Medicaid recipients is sparking fears. The measure is part of a sweeping federal spending bill supported by President Donald Trump that has cleared the House and is now being considered by the Senate.

A new Senate plan would tie Medicaid to 80-hour work requirements. Up to 5 million Americans could lose coverage, CBO warns.

Medicaid expansion was a recognition that low-income Americans of all ages need, and deserve, health insurance, and that such a step is essential to a properly functioning health care system. Forcing states to knock down the very health equity foundation they have built would truly be a “shift in kind.

Senate Republicans are proposing more expansive reforms to Medicaid in President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful” bill, defying naysayers who

As the U.S. Senate works on its version of the House-approved ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ Iowa’s senior Senator says he supports work requirements for most Medicaid recipients.

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law June 6 requiring tens of thousands of Iowans on Medicaid to work or lose their health care coverage.

In defending Trump's signature spending bill—which could cut millions from the Medicaid rolls over the next decade—Kentucky Congressman Brett Guthrie said a study suggests millions of able-bodied people on the program are misusing time that could be spent at a job or benefiting the community.

The health policy nonprofit KFF estimated between 120,000 and 190,000 people in Colorado could lose their insurance, mostly through falling off the Medicaid rolls, over the next 10 years.