In the past six months, the Georgia Pathways to Coverage program, the first state-managed Medicaid program to have a work requirement in the United States, has only gained 1,887 new participants.

The nation’s only Medicaid work program is part of a broad Republican push to change how poor people qualify for health care. In a second Trump term, Medicaid could be a target for huge spending cuts.

ATLANTA — Georgia’s U.S. Senators Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are pushing for a federal investigation of the Georgia Pathways to Coverage program. When Georgia launched the Pathways program, ...

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