Democratic Gov. Janet Mills is rejecting an arrangement her Republican predecessor set up with the Trump administration in Maine that would have required certain people on Medicaid to work as a condition of staying enrolled in the program.

Instead, she directed the state’s health agency Tuesday to make vocational and work training programs available as an option for Mainers. To be on the Medicaid program, people in the state must make less than roughly $17,000 a year, regardless of whether they are working, are disabled, or what their savings are.

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