Georgia had work requirements for Medicaid and was kicking people off of Medicaid unjustly who did qualify for it
OverstatedXavier Becerra, at California Governor General Election Debate (CNN)
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Why we checked itSpecific claim about Georgia's Medicaid work requirement implementation resulting in wrongful disenrollment of eligible beneficiaries — a verifiable policy outcome
What we foundGeorgia did have active Medicaid work requirements, and the program demonstrably blocked many eligible people from coverage through administrative and technical barriers — but the specific characterisation of 'kicking people off' is imprecise: the primary documented harm was preventing eligible people from enrolling in the first place, not disenrolling existing enrollees.