Advocates sound alarm as Utah looks to impose work requirements on Medicaid expansion

Advocates sound alarm as Utah looks to impose work requirements on Medicaid expansion

Marcella Patino gives a customer a pedicure while working at a salon in Holladay, Utah on April 30, 2025. (Courtesy of Marcella Patino)Marcella Patino, 34, knows the difficulties of navigating work requirements.  Patino, who works full time as a nail technician and esthetician at a salon in Holladay, is a single mother of three. She relies on financial assistance for child care — $600 a month for day care — so she can keep working full time, and…

Faith and community groups raise concerns about proposed Medicaid work requirements - Utah Policy

On Thursday, May 1, 2025, the Faith and Advocacy Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness submitted the following letter to Utah’s Department of Health and Human Services, and other state leaders, raising concerns about a proposal to add work requirements to Utah’s Medicaid Program.  The letter was signed by 67 people from eleven different denominations and three different nonprofit organizations, located in areas ranging from Ogden to Park City…

Medicaid Work Requirements Don’t Work — They Harm People with

Jacob Abudaram, Skadden Fellow, ACLU Disability Rights Program Susan Mizner, Director Emeritus, ACLU Disability Rights Program Medicaid helps tens of millions of people stay healthy, care for their families, and navigate life’s hardest moments. It’s a critical lifeline for people with disabilities. But some lawmakers in Congress are pushing a policy that would do little more than make it harder for people to access that care: Medicaid work requi…