General Discussion

17. Q: What are the new Medicaid work requirements? A: Adults aged 19-64 without disabilitiesmust work, volunteer, or study 80 hours per month (about 20 hours per week) . You must report this every 6 months. The final version also requires parents with children over 14 to work.

18. Q: Who is exempt from Medicaid work requirements? A: People with disabilities, pregnant women, caregivers for children under a certain age, students, and people over 64. However, you may need to prove your exemption status regularly.

However, it now appears that at least one Trump administration official — one who is specifically tasked with supporting and regulating America’s farmers — is supportive of the raids on farm workers plowing ahead. Rollins has, she professes, found a solution for those in the industry she oversees: Farmers short on field laborers due to mass deportations could replace the work with some sort of amorphous AI. You know, the kind that picks tomatoes. Alternatively, they could nab some of those purported freeloaders (child-free, able bodied adults between the ages of 19 and 64) on Medicaid who will soon have to complete work requirements (at least 80 hours per month of work, volunteering, education, or training) in order to access health care, thanks to Trump’s disastrous, Medicaid-slashing megabill.