Case in point: The administration just doubled down on its intention to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients. Trump’s policy effort is embodied in a brief the government filed late Tuesday asking the Supreme Court to endorse Medicaid work requirements. Throwing people off health coverage makes it harder for them to find and hold jobs, not the other way around. That made their approval of the work rules “arbitrary and capricious,” a statutory term of art that means their actions were invalid. For one thing, the coronavirus pandemic makes the provision of health coverage to vulnerable populations more important than ever.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 15, 2020 19:52 UTC