New Medicaid work rules could set off litigation in Blue states to delay implementation - Bagenstos

Some policy experts expect Democratic states or other groups to sue and halt implementation.

• "It wouldn't shock me if there were some litigation arising," said Sam Bagenstos, a University of Michigan law professor and former Health and Human Services general counsel in the Biden administration.
• "It was always going to be really hard for [states] to implement these work requirements, to set up the bureaucracy they need to set up ... in the very short amount of time that the statute gave them," he said. "This just makes it even harder."

Faculty Expert

Samuel R. Bagenstos

Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy

Samuel R. Bagenstos is Frank G. Millard Professor of Law and Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy at the University of Michigan. He served as General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Management and Budget in the Biden administration.