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GA Medicaid program has high administrative costs, low enrollment, review says

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Georgia Pathways to Coverage program, which aims to expand health insurance coverage to low-income Georgians while adding work ...
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Georgia offered Medicaid with a work requirement. Few have signed up.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A GOP experiment forcing low-income people to work to qualify for public health insurance benefits is stumbling in Georgia. The ...
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Ga. Medicaid work mandate is extended despite its red tape

ATLANTA - Georgia’s program that provides health insurance to some low-income adults that document work or other activities has been extended for 15 months by President Donald Trump’s administration.
The Nation

Georgia’s Disastrous Medicaid Work Requirements

Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, said that 345,000 people would enroll in the state’s Medicaid program, which has strict work requirements—so far just 5,118 have. In 2023, when Georgia ...
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Georgia’s Medicaid work program gets extended

ATLANTA — The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved Georgia’s request to extend the Pathways to Coverage program. According to a release from the governor’s office, the program will ...
Medical Xpress

Georgia's work requirement slows processing of applications for Medicaid, food stamps

For years, Georgia's public benefits system has been plagued by problem—a glitchy website that's often down for maintenance, a shortage of staff to process applications, and technology that ...
The New York Times

Biden and Georgia Are Waging a Fight Over Medicaid and the Future of Obamacare

A fierce battle with Georgia over a Medicaid experiment with stricter enrollment underscores the vast divide between parties over how to cover lower-income Americans. By Noah Weiland Reporting from ...
The New York Times

A Georgia Work Program Previews How Trump Could Reshape Medicaid

The nation’s only Medicaid work program is part of a broad Republican push to change how poor people qualify for health care. In a second Trump term, Medicaid could be a target for huge spending cuts.
Fast Company

Georgia’s Medicaid plan requiring work sees low enrollment in the first year

But a year since its launch, Pathways to Coverage has roughly 4,300 members, much lower than what state officials projected and a tiny fraction of the roughly half-million state residents who could be ...
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Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program spent twice as much on administrative costs as healthcare, GAO says

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Most ...
The Washington Post

As Republicans weigh Medicaid work requirements, Georgia offers a warning

Two years ago, Georgia began allowing low-income adults to join Medicaid on the condition that they work or train for a job. Republicans now tout the state as a model of compassionate cost-saving ...