The Trump administration says it will work to reverse a court decision blocking a Kentucky Medicaid waiver, that would, among other things, tie work requirements to Medicaid eligibility.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington nullified the waiver in June, saying that the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) didn’t fully consider the ramifications of the waiver, which the state estimated might result in as many as 95,000 people losing coverage by the government-run health care program. He said the department’s decision was not in line with the Administrative Procedure Act, which allows a court to overrule an agency’s decision if it believes it “failed to consider an important aspect of the problem.”
