Federal Judge Dismisses Another Medicaid Work Requirement Case

Washington, DC – On April 15, a federal judge formally dismissed the case Young v Becerra. In the case, four low-income Michiganders challenged the Healthy Michigan Plan, which conditioned Medicaid eligibility on work requirements and other restrictive conditions, including premium payments for very low-income people. The work requirement provision, approved by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2019 under the Trump administration as a section 1115 waiver, would have pushed up to 160,000 people off Medicaid if implemented. The federal court vacated the work requirements in a summary judgment order on March 4, 2020, and on December 31, 2023, the State allowed the section 1115 project to expire.