Arkansas Medicaid work requirements led to fewer insured people 

Arkansas became the first state last year to require Medicaid recipients to work at least 80 hours per month and engage in some other community activity. A federal judge in March blocked the requirements from continuing, but a new study provides the first evidence to suggest that the rules led to a dip in Medicaid enrollment. As of late 2018, when the survey was conducted, there was a 12 percentage point reduction in Medicaid enrollment in Arkansas in those ages 30-49, but the same wasn’t true for people who were surveyed in three other states that didn’t have similar requirements at the time. The vast number of Arkansans were meeting the work requirements, but a third were unaware of the new rules, suggesting that many lost Medicaid coverage because they didn’t know they were supposed to report proof of employment.