Giving Compass' Take:

· Governing Magazine discusses how the Trump administration is changing the field of health care in America. Mattie Quinn explains that under Trump, the CMS already approved waivers previously denied by the Obama administration but there will be limits to what can be done.

· What will happen if states implement work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries? How are these changes to Medicaid impacting the beneficiaries? 

· Read about a judge who blocked the Medicaid work requirement.

Ever since being elected, President Donald Trump has vowed to give states more flexibility to enact their own health care policies.

Under him, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved state waivers that the Obama administration continually denied. Several states, for instance, have received permission to make employment a requirement for Medicaid, the government-sponsored health care plan. (In at least one of those states, however, the new rule has already gone to court.)

The administration is also letting some states require beneficiaries to report income changes (Kentucky) and locking people out for the rest of the calendar year if they don't comply with the work requirement (Arkansas).

But it turns out that there are limits to what the Trump administration will let states do.

Read the full article about Trump's limits on Medicaid freedom by Mattie Quinn at Governing Magazine.