Florida’s Medicaid Work Requirements Will Eliminate the Program for the Very Poor
“At the end of April, the Florida House of Representatives voted 71–44, along party lines, to pass HB955, legislation that would result in the implementation of work requirements on all the state’s non-disabled adult Medicaid recipients. Florida is home to some 500,000 recipients of Medicaid, the federal health-care program for the poor and disabled. Per the bill’s proposal, those beneficiaries would be required to prove they are working or actively seeking jobs to maintain their eligibility, potentially jeopardizing some 100,000 people their current coverage. It represents the most aggressive proposed cuts to the Medicaid program to date.”