{"id":611,"date":"2026-04-20T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/?p=611"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:00:00","slug":"80-hour-rule-threatens-millions-health-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/80-hour-rule-threatens-millions-health-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"80-Hour Rule Threatens Millions\u2019 Health Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/chipper\/threatens-flexibility-medicaid\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>H.R.1 added Medicaid work requirements for low-income adults 19\u201364, requiring 80 hours monthly to keep benefits.<br \/>\nRules began in 2026\u20132027 for 41 ACA expansion states, but enforcement details are left largely to states.<br \/>\nProjected 2026 coverage losses: 4.6\u20135.2M adults<br \/>\nBy 2034: up to 5M fewer enrollees<br \/>\nFederal spending \u2193$300\u2013344B<br \/>\nStates can automate verification or require manual reporting; hardship exemptions, grace periods, and re-enrollment rules shape churn.<br \/>\nEarly pilots showed little employment or coverage gain, but more disenrollment from administrative complexity.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H.R.1 added Medicaid work requirements for low-income adults 19\u201364, requiring 80 hours monthly to keep benefits. Rules began in 2026\u20132027 for 41 ACA expansion states, but enforcement details are left largely to states. Projected 2026 coverage losses: 4.6\u20135.2M adults By 2034: up to 5M fewer enrollees Federal spending \u2193$300\u2013344B States can automate verification or require [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}