STAT+：联邦法官驳回针对工作要求的新版医疗补助“体弱”定义
摘要
一名联邦法官周四驳回了联邦政府对“医疗体弱”的新定义，并裁定各州没有足够的时间或资源来彻底改造其资格审核系统，这为即将在全美范围内推行的医疗补助工作要求增添了新的不确定性。美国马萨诸塞州联邦地区法院法官理查德·D·斯特恩斯裁定，联邦关于谁被视为病重无法工作的标准过于严格，并表示来自二十多个州的诉讼成功证明了按现行文本实施的医疗补助工作要求将造成“不可挽回的损害”。“由于执行对‘医疗体弱’的非法定义可能导致本应符合条件的弱势群体失去依赖医疗补助的参保资格，”
English
A federal judge on Thursday rejected the federal government’s new definition of “medical frailty” and ruled that states did not have adequate time or resources to overhaul their eligibility systems, injecting new uncertainty into the imminent rollout of Medicaid work requirements across the country. Judge Richard D. Stearns of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts ruled that federal regarding who is considered too sick to work was overly restrictive, and said that the suit from over two dozen states successfully demonstrated that implementation of the Medicaid work requirements, as written, would cause “irreparable harm.” “Because enforcement of an unlawful definition of ‘medically frail’ may lead to the disenrollment of otherwise eligible vulnerable individuals relying on Medicaid cove