The Trump administration wants to require Medicaid recipients to work in exchange for their benefits. That means working, volunteering, attending school, or job training for 80 hours a month. Yet this reasonable reform has provoked howls of outrage from progressives, who say the requirements would deprive low-income people of healthcare.

This outrage is unjustified. The majority of Medicaid beneficiaries are perfectly capable of getting a job: About 60 percent are of working age and not disabled. Of those, however, about half don’t work, and only about 1 in 5 works full time. What’s more, roughly 6.8 million of the 12.4 million Medicaid enrollees added under Obamacare’s expansion don’t work, according to the Foundation of Government Accountability.