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https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/medicaid-work-requirement-medically-frail/2026/07/30/id/1264614/

A federal judge in Massachusetts declined to block a
Trump administration interim rule that requires "medically
frail" Medicaid patients to prove they are physically unable
to work in order to keep their insurance.

Two dozen Democrat-led states, two Democratic governors and
the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in late June
challenging the interim rule issued by the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services, arguing they are suffering
irreparable harm because they must spend millions to hire
staff and set up new technology systems to verify which
Medicaid patients are "medically frail" enough to qualify
for an exemption.

But U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns ruled late Wednesday
that, although courts have recognized that unrecoverable
financial damages resulting from agency action are "sufficient"
to establish irreparable harm, he is not convinced that the
states "have shown that their expenditures are likely to be
totally irrecoverable."

He cited a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that
requires the federal government to cover 90% of states'
implementation costs.

. . .

Good and bad here.

I have MediCARE ... and PAY a lot for it still ... but
it's mostly MediCAID that's being scammed.

Alas, while all clear In Theory, In PRACTICE this is
a bag of rabid weasels.

By far, not ALL MediCaid recipients are cheaters.
However many of them are SO fucked up that PROVING
they're horribly fucked up may be more than they
can actually DO. Agency/court physical appearances
and such ... gonna wheel them in on a gurney ???
That's TORTURE.

PLUS they'd have to HIRE people to wheel them in.
Most do NOT have the cash for that. The general
impression WOULD be that the govt was trying
to screw The Poor out of their just benefits.

So, what to DO about cheating ???

Well, SOME cases are kinda obvious - so you go
after THOSE people and their facilitators. The
facilitators are In It For The Money and can't
hide very well.

The important part is to make it obvious that
the govt IS looking for cheats - that cheating
is not 'safe' anymore.

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