explained in February, losing health care coverage would spur people to improve themselves, and they’d be better off for it. The budget office pointed to what happened when the first Trump administration let Arkansas implement a Medicaid work requirement in 2018. “People are screaming and saying, ‘Hey, it’s kicking people off Medicaid.’ It’s not kicking people off Medicaid,” Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said in an interview with CNBC. During a Wednesday interview on Fox Business, Oz defended the bill’s harsh, new work requirements for Medicaid. It also requires states to kick people off Medicaid if they can’t prove they’re meeting the work requirements.

Source: Huffington Post June 07, 2025 21:21 UTC