{"id":12014,"date":"2026-03-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12014"},"modified":"2026-03-14T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T09:00:00","slug":"journalists-talk-medicaid-work-mandate-in-georgia-and-wage-garnishment-bill-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12014","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Talk Medicaid Work Mandate in Georgia and Wage Garnishment Bill in Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed Medicaid work requirements on WUGA\u2019s <em>The Georgia Health Report <\/em>on March 6. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wuga.org\/show\/wuga-health-desk\/2026-03-06\/georgia-health-report-medicaid-work-requirements-to-affect-coverage-for-older-adults\">Click here to hear Whitehead on <em>The Georgia Health Report<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Whitehead\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/medicaid-work-requirements-middle-aged-adults-women\/\">New Medicaid Work Rules Likely To Hit Middle-Aged Adults Hard<\/a>,\u201d co-reported with Samantha Liss.<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News Colorado correspondent Rae Ellen Bichell discussed wage garnishment legislation on KUNC\u2019s <em>In the NoCo<\/em> on March 5.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kunc.org\/podcast\/inthenoco\/2026-03-05\/why-a-proposed-colorado-law-may-ban-the-practice-of-garnishing-patients-paychecks-to-repay-medical-debt\">Click here to hear Bichell on <em>In the NoCo<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Bichell\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/medical-debt-wage-garnishment-state-legislation-patient-protection\/\">State Lawmakers Seek Restraints on Wage Garnishment for Medical Debt<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/on-air-march-14-2026-georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-colorado-wage-garnishment\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed Medicaid work requirements on WUGA\u2019s The Georgia Health Report on March 6. Click here to hear Whitehead on The Georgia Health Report. Read Whitehead\u2019s \u201cNew Medicaid Work Rules Likely To Hit Middle-Aged Adults Hard,\u201d co-reported with Samantha Liss. KFF Health News Colorado correspondent Rae Ellen Bichell discussed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}