The Trump administration on Friday approved a plan by Kentucky that will require many of the state’s Medicaid recipients to participate in work or related activities to get or keep coverage, launching what conservatives hope is a broad transformation of a safety-net program that covers almost one in five Americans. The approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is expected to face swift legal opposition from consumer groups, who say work requirements violate the guarantee that people who meet certain income...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 12, 2018 18:40 UTC