{"id":12599,"date":"2024-01-09T15:25:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T15:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12599"},"modified":"2024-01-09T15:25:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T15:25:40","slug":"georgia-offered-medicaid-with-a-work-requirement-few-have-signed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12599","title":{"rendered":"Georgia offered Medicaid with a work requirement. Few have signed up."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;A GOP experiment forcing low-income people to work to qualify for public health insurance benefits is stumbling in Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state\u2019s Republican governor, Brian Kemp,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicaid.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-10\/ga-pathways-to-coverage-ca.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expected 31,000 Georgians to sign up<\/a>&nbsp;in the first year of the program, which started in July. Through four months, only 1,800 people enrolled \u2014 and critics blame the paltry expansion on an overly complex program with too many hurdles for people to clear.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/12\/26\/georgia-public-health-insurance-expansion-00132698\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/12\/26\/georgia-public-health-insurance-expansion-00132698<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A GOP experiment forcing low-income people to work to qualify for public health insurance benefits is stumbling in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, expected 31,000 Georgians to sign up in the first year of the program, which started in July. Through four months, only 1,800 people enrolled \u2014 and critics blame the paltry expansion on an overly complex program with too many hurdles for people to clear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/12\/26\/georgia-public-health-insurance-expansion-00132698<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[674,815,334,73,341,150],"class_list":["post-12599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-entitlements","tag-georgia","tag-health-insurance","tag-healthcare","tag-medicaid","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12600,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599\/revisions\/12600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}