Last week, the Trump administration approved a fifth state's request to add work requirements to Medicaid, the nation's health insurance program for the poor. Wisconsin is also the first state to receive approval for work requirements since a federal court struck them down in Kentucky.
Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), addressed the pushback in her approval letter to Wisconsin.
"I recognize that there are people who disagree with this approach. We will not retreat from this position," she wrote, adding that requiring Medicaid recipients to have some form of employment can "help lift individuals out of the shadows of opportunity and into its light."
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