Health Care

Blue states file lawsuit over ‘narrow’ Medicaid work requirement exemption

CMS adopted a restrictive definition of who could claim a ‘medical frailty.’
California Attorney General Rob Bonta makes his way to the podium before the start of a news conference in San Francisco, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

A coalition of 24 attorneys general and two governors sued the Trump administration on Monday to block a federal rule limiting exemptions to a new federal Medicaid work requirement. 

The directive issued in June would “dramatically narrow” exclusions for medically vulnerable people under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and sow “harm and chaos” in the states by forcing them to scuttle expensive and complex plans they had spent months devising based on regular communication with federal officials, the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts alleges. 

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