{
  "id": 11822564,
  "title": "Governors ask HHS for more time to implement Medicaid work requirements",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/governors-ask-hhs-for-more-time-to-implement-medicaid-work",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-02T13:15:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Healthcare Dive",
    "slug": "healthcare-dive",
    "url": "https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/medicaid-work-requirements-governors-ask-hhs-delay-letter/831992/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The governors of Oregon, California, Maine, New York and Virginia don’t think it’s possible for states to meet the Jan. 1 deadline to stand up work requirements while protecting beneficiaries.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}