Virginia officials are moving to limit eligibility for Medicaid via work requirements, even as the state is set Thursday to make more poor Virginians eligible to sign up for the government-funded health insurance program.
The state will file a waiver with the Trump administration by Friday that would require certain people in Medicaid to work or train for work as a condition of staying enrolled in the program, just after opening the program to low-income residents a day earlier without such conditions attached.
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