Rishi K. Wadhera

@altcdc.altgov.info

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Evidence keeps piling up: Medicaid work requirements do not increase employment. They just make it harder for people to get health insurance.

Latest evidence comes from a BMJ study on Georgia. 🧵

Insurance coverage and employment after Medicaid expansion with work requirements: quasi-experimental difference-in-differences study

Objective To understand how health insurance coverage and employment changed among working age adults with low incomes in Georgia, the first state to implement Medicaid expansion with work requirement...

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The BMJ

@bmj.com

New BMJ Research finds the implementation of work requirements with Medicaid expansion in Georgia did not increase health insurance coverage or employment.

These findings have important implications after recently enacted legislation
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Trends in health insurance coverage and employment in Georgia and Medicaid non-expansion states

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Dr. Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP MPhil

@rkwadhera.bsky.social

Medicaid work requirements will soon be implemented nationwide

Our new @bmj.com study shows what happened to insurance coverage and jobs when Georgia rolled them out in 2023. bit.ly/3VE1QsK

Featured in @nytimes.com #medsky
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/w...

Medicaid Work Requirements Don’t Boost Employment, Study Shows

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Daniel Y. Johnson

@danielyjohnson.bsky.social

Medicaid work requirements will soon be mandatory nationwide

Our new @bmj.com study shows that in Georgia - the only state to expand Medicaid with work requirements - work requirements impeded gains in Medicaid coverage without increasing employment

www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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