Medicaid 'Work Requirements' Waste Taxpayer Dollars, Part Infinity

by Margaret Coker, The Current Series: Broken Pathways: How a Medicaid Work Requirement Program Fails Georgians

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Most of the tax dollars used to launch and implement the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement program have gone toward paying administrative costs rather than covering health care for Georgians, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office , the nonpartisan agency that monitors federal programs and spending.

The government report examined administrative expenses for Georgia Pathways to Coverage, the state’s experiment with work requirements. It follows previous reporting by The Current and ProPublica showing that the program has cost federal and state taxpayers more than $86.9 million while enrolling a tiny fraction of th