Oklahomans don’t mind providing a helping hand to those in need. But they hate paying for others’ idleness.

That’s one problem with the 2020 decision to expand Oklahoma’s Medicaid program to include able-bodied adults with no children.

That expansion has diverted hundreds of millions from other uses in the years since, and the price tag could explode by as much as $700 million per year if federal officials alter the state match for able-bodied adults to roughly the same level as the state match for disabled people on Medicaid.

Fortunately, congressional officials have also proposed allowing states to impose work requirements . To stay on Medicaid, the able-bodied would need to spend 80 hours a month either working, going to school, participating in a work program, or doing communi

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