Today, I wrote a piece for the New York Times titled “Medicaid Work Requirements Are Cruel and Pointless.” The post below about Medicaid utilization in SIPP is an accompaniment to that piece.

The New York Times recently ran an opinion piece from RFK Jr. and three other Trump administration officials in which they argue in favor of adding work requirements to Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income Americans.

At one point in the piece, they write that:

A recent analysis from an economist at the American Enterprise Institute examined survey data from December 2022 (the most recent month available) and found that just 44 percent of able-bodied, working-age Medicaid beneficiaries without dependents worked at least 80 hours in that month.

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