[20210312]LSB10577_医疗补助工作要求：诉讼结束了？.pdf

CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Medicaid Work Requirements: An End to the Litigation? Updated March 12, 2021 UPDA TE: After this Sidebar was published on March 4, 2021, the Supreme Court removed the Medicaid work requirement litigation from its oral argument calendar. The Court has not yet ruled on the Biden Administrations motion to vacate the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuits decisions. The original post is below. As part of Medicaid program reform efforts, a debate continues over “community engagement” activitiesso-called “work requirements”which require certain nondisabled adults to work, volunteer, attend school, or participate in other qualifying activities as a condition of program eligibility or coverage. While proponents of these requirements assert such policies may improve the health of Medicaid beneficiaries and help shift these individuals to private-sector health coverage (thereby promoting “fiscal sustainability” in the program), critics claim they do not increase employment levels and trigger substantial health coverage losses for vulnerable populations. During the Trump Administration, at lea