Are Medicaid Work Requirements Legal?

Bagley details whether medicaid work requirements are legal. The answer will hinge on whether a state's waiver is a genuine experimental, pilot, or demonstration project that is likely to assist in promoting the objectives of the Medicaid program. But the courts have not been moved by the argument true though it may be that Congress never meant for section 1115 to be a vehicle for the adoption of sweeping, controversial, and partisan reforms to Medicaid. Furthermore, any lawsuits targeting the new work requirements will probably try to leverage the rationale of these 2 cases, first, challengers will argue that CMS has not offered a cogent explanation for why work requirements advance Medicaid's purpose and challengers may press the argument that the Trump administration is not conducting an experiment into work requirements.