Next year, Michigan will start enforcing people to work in order for some to stay on Medicaid.
But right, Governor Gretchen Whitmer is in Washington, D.C. talking about about ways to ease those rules.
Former Governor Rick Snyder signed a bill last year, requiring people on the Healthy Michigan Medicaid Expansion to work at least 80 hours a month for people between the ages of 18 and 62.
Governor Whitmer has said she's looking at lowering the age limit for the work requirement to 50, and potentially the need to report hours worked to the state monthly.
The Trump administration in December approved the state's request for a waiver allowing Michigan to impose the work and other requirements on nearly 663,000 people enrolled in the Healthy Michigan program.
She intends to work with the Republican-controlled state Legislature on the revisions, which would also require amending Michigan's waiver with the federal government.
Whitmer says an independent study shows up to 183,000 residents could lose Medicaid once work or education requirements begin.
Republicans could block any attempt to revise the work law enacted last year.
Governor Whitmer is attending the National Governors Association annual winter meeting in Washington.
