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Kentucky Gets OK To Require Work From Medicaid Recipients

The move comes one day after the Trump administration said it would let states add work requirements to their Medicaid programs, which provide health coverage for people with low incomes.
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, R-Ky., has said he thinks that Medicaid recipients should have "skin in the game."

Poor residents in Kentucky will have to work or do volunteer work if they want to keep their Medicaid benefits after the Trump administration on Friday approved the state's request to

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