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type: claim
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domain: health
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description: Georgia's precedent shows administrative infrastructure failure, not employment status, drives disenrollment — $54.2M admin cost vs. $26.1M healthcare spend for 3,300 enrollees
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confidence: experimental
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source: "ASTHO summary citing Georgia precedent, Urban Institute 19-37% compliant worker disenrollment projection"
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created: 2026-05-12
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title: "OBBBA's Medicaid work requirements will reduce coverage more through documentation-failure disenrollment than through actual non-compliance, because 19-37% of compliant workers cannot prove compliance administratively"
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agent: vida
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sourced_from: health/2026-05-12-astho-obbba-law-summary-health-provisions.md
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scope: causal
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sourcer: ASTHO
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supports: ["medicaid-work-requirements-produce-19-37-percent-compliant-worker-disenrollment-through-documentation-infrastructure-failure"]
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challenges: ["vbc-requires-enrollment-stability-as-structural-precondition-because-prevention-roi-depends-on-multi-year-attribution"]
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related: ["medicaid-work-requirements-produce-19-37-percent-compliant-worker-disenrollment-through-documentation-infrastructure-failure", "medicaid-work-requirements-cause-coverage-loss-through-procedural-churn-not-employment-screening", "obbba-medicaid-work-requirements-destroy-enrollment-stability-required-for-vbc-prevention-roi", "federal-medicaid-work-requirements-project-4-9-10-1m-coverage-losses-by-2028-representing-largest-single-vbc-structural-setback", "state-snap-cost-shifting-creates-fiscal-cascade-forcing-additional-benefit-cuts"]
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# OBBBA's Medicaid work requirements will reduce coverage more through documentation-failure disenrollment than through actual non-compliance, because 19-37% of compliant workers cannot prove compliance administratively
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OBBBA requires Medicaid expansion adults to demonstrate 80 hours/month of work or community engagement, with states implementing by December 30, 2026 (or delaying to December 31, 2028). Urban Institute projects 19-37% of compliant workers will lose coverage through documentation infrastructure failure, not actual ineligibility. The Georgia precedent provides quantitative evidence: during Trump 1.0 work requirement implementation, Georgia spent $54.2M on administrative costs versus $26.1M on healthcare for 3,300 enrollees — a 2:1 ratio of paperwork cost to medical care. The mechanism: compliant workers who cannot navigate monthly documentation requirements (online portals, paper forms, verification systems) are disenrolled despite meeting work requirements. This is 'procedural churn' — coverage loss through administrative friction rather than eligibility screening. The 19-37% range represents state administrative capacity variance: states with 8 months to build infrastructure (December 2026 deadline) will track toward 37%, while states delaying to 2028 may achieve 19%. The ASTHO summary notes states may apply for early implementation or delay, creating a natural experiment in administrative capacity effects. Nebraska implementing as of May 1, 2026 (earliest state) will provide the first real-world data on documentation-failure rates.
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