putting work requirements on healthcare is what damned it.
Right now, Georgia is the only state that imposes a work requirement for Medicaid coverage. But more than a dozen largely Republican-led states already plan to seek approval from the Trump administration to impose work requirements on Medicaid enrollees.
Even moving it to an annual work verification isn't going to help. People are struggling to find and maintain work, so why apply for something that's going to be stripped from them in the future, through no fault of their own?
Thousands of others never finished applying, according to the state’s data, as reports of technical glitches mounted. The state also never hired enough people to help residents sign up
the Pathways program has cost federal and state taxpayers more than $86.9 million, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants
The whole thing is a republican boondoggle. They imposed requirements that doomed sign-up, then funneled money to their friends companies, all so they could performatively throw up their hands in despair and say "well, I guess government provided healthcare IS just a waste of tax payer money!" Fucking grifters getting people killed because they'd rather play politics than help people.