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President Joe Biden took executive action Thursday to unravel health policies of the Trump era, including steps to unwind Medicaid work requirements. The new administration’s exact path forward, however, could be complex.
At an executive order signing in the Oval Office, Biden directed the Department of Health and Human Services to review a slew of health policies, including waivers that allow states to enact work requirements for some residents in order to receive Medicaid benefits. But nixing work requirements a partisan and time-sensitive issue given they’re at the center of an upcoming Supreme Court case could be easier said than done given they’ve been tied up with legal challenges and the Trump administration laid out a new procedure for rolling back Medicaid waivers in its final two weeks.