Biden administration asks US Supreme Court to dump Medicaid work case

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to cancel an upcoming oral argument on a policy introduced under his predecessor Donald Trump backing work requirements for people who receive healthcare under the Medicaid program for the poor.

Acting Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said the Biden administration has started the process of reversing the previous policy and asked the justices to dump the scheduled March 29 arguments concerning pilot programs adopted by the states of Arkansas and New Hampshire.

Under Trump, the Department of Health and Human Services in 2018 approved the pilot projects in those two states as part of a …

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