Work Requirements: Moral Judgements vs. Incentives.

Work Requirements: Moral Judgements vs. Incentives.

The work requirements for Medicaid are in the news. All the news coverage I have seen describes this as a morality play. On the right, we shouldn’t give federally paid free health care to “able-bodied” young men who choose not to work. On the left, “people will die!” NPR set me off, of course, with a long bleating story that the paperwork alone to document 20 hours of week of work or training or school or volunteering or whatever is such a burde…