02/10/2026
MEAction launched a campaign at the end of 2025 regarding upcoming changes to work requirements for those on Medicaid. To help understand all the implications of this, we need to understand Medicaid. We will be sharing some education around Medicaid as a whole and the work requirements specifically to help us all understand.
Check out this PBS NewsHour segment that is part of Judy Woodruff’s Disability Reframed series: “How people with disabilities could bear the burden of Medicaid funding cuts.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-people-with-disabilities-will-bear-the-burden-of-medicaid-funding-cuts
This segment focuses on The Bright Center, a day program in Virginia for disabled adults, as one of the many examples of how Medicaid funding helps and what losing that funding means.
Woodruff shares that states are bracing to lose more than $900 billion over the next decade.
Alice Burns of KFF shares, “This is the single biggest rollback in federal support for health care that we have ever seen. And people with disabilities are much more likely to rely on programs like Medicaid than people without disabilities.”
Burns goes on to share, “With this level of a funding cut, states are going to have to make some tough choices about how to deal with the loss of federal funds. And we know that home and community care for people with disabilities is a significant source of Medicaid funding. And almost all the services are optional for states to cover.”
This program left us with this fact: Over 600,000 Americans were on waiting lists for Medicaid’s Home and Community-Based services program last year.
There is a very real human cost to these Medicaid cuts.
