As Republicans weigh Medicaid work requirements, Georgia offers a warning [View all]

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Two years ago, Georgia began allowing low-income adults to join Medicaid on the condition that they work or train for a job. Republicans now tout the state as a model of compassionate cost-saving health policy.

But Georgia’s experience may actually offer reason for caution, even as House Republicans this week advanced measures to impose similar conditions nationwide.

Just 12,000 of the nearly 250,000 newly eligible Georgians ultimately received Medicaid, the public health insurance program for the poor and disabled, well short of the state’s initial 50,000 goal. Administrative costs far outpaced spending on medical care. Some who do work had a tough time proving it to state officials - or their work, such as caring for ailing relatives, didn’t qualify.

Georgia’s experiences portend what’s to come if work requirements are imposed nationally, Medicaid researchers said.

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