Many poor Americans get health coverage through Medicaid. Last year, with encouragement from the Trump administration, some states decided to try and change their Medicaid programs. For people to be eligible for health coverage, they needed to show that they were working, or met some other requirement.

On this episode of The Dose, Ben Sommers, a professor of health policy, and economics at the Harvard School of Public Health, talks to host Shanoor Seervai about what happened in Arkansas the first state to implement a “work requirements” program.

The program was intended to promote better health and employment – instead, it led to more than 17,000 people losing health coverage in just three months, and no significant increase in the number of people with jobs.

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