The Trump administration planned to announce Tuesday that it was rejecting Kansas's request to impose a three-year lifetime limit on Medicaid benefits, but canceled the announcement at the last minute due to internal administration disagreements, sources say.
The rejection of Kansas's request would be significant, in that the Trump administration would be drawing the line against major new restrictions on the health insurance program for the poor.
The administration has already approved work requirements in Medicaid, a controversial step on its own. But if the administration turned down Kansas, it would be rejecting efforts to go beyond that and limit Medicaid benefits to three years, after which people would be dropped from the program forever.
