diff --git a/domains/health/medicaid-work-requirements-cause-coverage-loss-through-procedural-churn-not-employment-screening.md b/domains/health/medicaid-work-requirements-cause-coverage-loss-through-procedural-churn-not-employment-screening.md index 66d94ce2a..39f6fa6b7 100644 --- a/domains/health/medicaid-work-requirements-cause-coverage-loss-through-procedural-churn-not-employment-screening.md +++ b/domains/health/medicaid-work-requirements-cause-coverage-loss-through-procedural-churn-not-employment-screening.md @@ -14,6 +14,21 @@ related: - OBBBA Medicaid work requirements destroy the enrollment stability that value-based care requires for prevention ROI by forcing all 50 states to implement 80-hour monthly work thresholds by December 2026 reweave_edges: - OBBBA Medicaid work requirements destroy the enrollment stability that value-based care requires for prevention ROI by forcing all 50 states to implement 80-hour monthly work thresholds by December 2026|related|2026-04-09 + +### Auto-enrichment (near-duplicate conversion, similarity=1.00) +*Source: PR #10475 — "medicaid work requirements cause coverage loss through procedural churn not employment screening"* +*Auto-converted by substantive fixer. Review: revert if this evidence doesn't belong here.* + +related: ["OBBBA Medicaid work requirements destroy the enrollment stability that value-based care requires for prevention ROI by forcing all 50 states to implement 80-hour monthly work thresholds by December 2026", "medicaid-work-requirements-cause-coverage-loss-through-procedural-churn-not-employment-screening", "obbba-medicaid-work-requirements-destroy-enrollment-stability-required-for-vbc-prevention-roi", "one-big-beautiful-bill-act", "double-coverage-compression-simultaneous-medicaid-cuts-and-aptc-expiry-eliminate-coverage-for-under-400-fpl"] +reweave_edges: ["OBBBA Medicaid work requirements destroy the enrollment stability that value-based care requires for prevention ROI by forcing all 50 states to implement 80-hour monthly work thresholds by December 2026|related|2026-04-09"] +The CBO projects 5.3 million Americans will lose Medicaid coverage by 2034 due to work requirements — the single largest driver among all OBBBA provisions. This number is structurally revealing: it exceeds the population of able-bodied unemployed Medicaid adults, meaning the coverage loss cannot be primarily from screening out the unemployed. Instead, the mechanism is procedural churn: monthly reporting requirements (80 hrs/month documentation) create administrative barriers that cause eligible working adults to lose coverage through paperwork failures, not employment status. This is confirmed by the timeline: 1.3M uninsured in 2026 → 5.2M in 2027 shows rapid escalation inconsistent with gradual employment screening but consistent with cumulative procedural attrition. The work requirement functions as a coverage reduction mechanism disguised as an employment incentive. + +## Supporting Evidence + +**Source:** CBO analysis of One Big Beautiful Bill Act, CBPP Medicaid work requirement projections + +CBO estimates 5.2M Medicaid coverage loss from OBBBA work requirements by 2034, with CBPP projecting 9.9-14.9M at risk. Prior state work requirement experiments showed enrollees taking on more medical debt and delaying care rather than gaining employment, confirming the procedural churning mechanism. + --- # Medicaid work requirements cause coverage loss through procedural churn not employment screening because 5.3 million projected uninsured exceeds the population of able-bodied unemployed adults