“Most disenrollment would be among individuals who would remain eligible but lose coverage due to new administrative burdens or red tape versus those who would lose eligibility due to not meeting new work requirements,”
Feature, not a bug.
I still say it should be a MOVE YOUR LAZY RURAL WHITE METHBILLY ASS TO WHERE THE JOBS ARE AND STOP HIDING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE TO AVOID EMPLOYMENT requirement.
I was just about to post basically the same thing. Basically taking the voter ID model and applying it to health care. So we can not just disenfranchise you, we can kill you while we’re at it. Ebeneezer Scrooge would be proud.
Seriously, though. This is great news.
Great news. For now.
I don’t know about you, but my mental health needed a little bit of affirmation that the courts are still working. (but I accept your “for now” caveat)
Ok, this is a start in what has been an otherwise craptastic week.
How about a couple holiday weekend indictments to sorta balance things out, Mr. Mueller?
Damn, this will make it harder for the rural KY deplorables to turn on Bevin.
/s (sort of)
It’s good overall and in the long run, but Gov. Bevin promised to revoke the Medicaid expansion in KY if the work requirements were struck down, so it’s not great for many low-income Kentuckians. Not that the work requirements were better. Just an all-around crappy situation for low-income KY residents.
Until the Supremes overturn it
Don’t you mean the GOPremes?
I think we should have a division of labor where Mueller does the investigation part and the supporting our mental health we handle on our own. 
Seems like everyone’s asking him to hurry up, gonna stress the poor guy out.
That train left the station around November 2016…
What, they don’t sell liquor where you live?
Four Words: “Swing Vote John Roberts”.
I can’t believe that’s actually a thing…
The KY Medicaid work requirements were clearly discriminatory and politically biased while, as the judge pointed out, also failing to address the health needs of the people the program was presumably designed to assist.
What makes this a third strike out is the already known fact that work requirements generally, for Medicaid or any other program for the indigent, do not improve and in some cases impede positive outcomes for their populations, and do so in the teeth of evidence that better alternatives than linkage to work are available; e.g., Earning It: Why work requirements don’t work
The first task for evidence-based policymakers (if not moralists) is to focus on the actual effects of work requirements. And as the evidence discussed here suggests, they just don’t accomplish much. Thankfully, there are ways to make the social safety net fairer and more efficient than tying it to work.
Indeed. The trouble is, federal courts decide cases rightly and then the Trump Court overturns them in accordance with the Trump agenda. It’s intensely disappointing that the Kennedy corruption news has not led to a bigger uproar. Democrats should be clearly stating as one that all Trump-Kennedy decisions are tainted by massive undisclosed conflicts of interest and that their legitimacy is not accepted and will not be treated as binding by Democrats, who will continue to exercise power as authorized by the constitution. Roberts must be put under intense pressure to do the right thing or accept that his name will be synonymous with a broken and corrupt court.
While I am normally a calm and considered individual, I feel it pertinent at this point to allow some small expression of glee and schadenfreude, vis-a-vis the Republicans who were defeated here.
To Wit:
Fuck you, you fucking fucks! You LOST! Suck on it!!!
Thank you for your time.
Keep fighting the fights that need to be fought.
(there’s more every day)
While I believe you are correct, as many people in Europe once learned resistance often means gumming up the works, and sloooow walking every required action all along the way, fighting every fight, no matter how much it seems to be a losing battle. There should be no legal means exhausted in this fight- lawsuit after lawsuit, appeal after appeal. If nothing else it makes it come out of the darkness and be seen.