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NY Plans to Circumvent New Trump Medicaid Work Rules By Having People 'Work' to Teach People New Rules: 'We're Getting Very Creative'

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16.04.2026

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NY Plans to Circumvent New Trump Medicaid Work Rules By Having People 'Work' to Teach People New Rules: 'We're Getting Very Creative'

“We’re getting very creative.”

Those could be the words at the top of the résumé or LinkedIn profile for Dr. Alister Martin, New York City’s new health commissioner. Heaven knows, I’ll give him that much. It’s true! He, and others around him in New York state, are indeed getting very creative.

They are getting creative about, basically, how to effectively scam the government out of Medicaid funds by getting around new rules in the most preposterous way possible.

As a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed by President Donald Trump last year, there were ways to reduce the costs for the government by cutting down on entitlement abuses. One of these ways was work requirements for able-bodied individuals on Medicaid or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

According to the Center for Health Care Strategies, if you’re between the ages of 18 and 64, don’t have an impediment to working or training, and you’re receiving aid through those programs, you need “80 hours per month of one or more of the following activities: employment; participation in a work program, such as job training; enrollment in an educational program (at........

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