House GOP’s Medicaid Reform Would Force Millions of Able-Bodied Americans to Get Back to Work

Honest question that I really don't know:

Is the CBO assuming the worst case scenario in which not a single one of the able bodied people now on Medicaid is willing to work, volunteer or attend school for twenty hours per week and this will lose their benefits? Is that where the $3.5 Million figure comes from?

Or are they somehow estimating the number of work refusers who continue to refuse work after the bill takes effect as a percentage of the current work refusers on Medicaid?

If the second, on what do they base the estimate? I would estimate it at 10%, since it would be very foolish to refuse to work such short hours, but there will always be that ten percent who do the dumb thing no matter what.
 

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