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Work Requirements and Health: Projected Mortality Impacts of Medicaid Coverage Loss

2025-03-04 health policy Title + abstract only
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Recent legislative proposals to impose nationwide work requirements for Medicaid eligibility could jeopardize health insurance coverage for over 36 million low-income Americans. To assess the potential mortality impact, we estimated annual excess deaths under a comprehensive set of scenarios reflecting varying policy implementations. These scenarios accounted for differences in age groups (19-55 vs. 19-64), eligibility based on Medicaid expansion status, and varying levels of automatic exemption...

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