Medicaid for adults

Medicaid was a free or almost free healthcare for low income people but only for those with children. Obamacare changed that to include low income adults without children. This added about 8 million people to the rolls. Another 6 million adults became eligible because income limits were raised. A new law allows states to place work requirements on those receiving Medicaid and Arkansas in one of the first states to implement new rules. In Arkansas the law requires beneficiaries to work, volunteer, search for new jobs or go to school 80 hours a month to be eligible for Medicaid. America is now home to an army of prime working aged men, some seven million of them ages 25 to 54 who are no longer looking for work. According to demographer Nicholas Eberstadt, the labor force participation rate for men ages 25 to 54 is lower now that it was at the end of the Great Depression.