The strict Medicaid work rules that the White House released
    this week are likely to put ongoing treatments in jeopardy.

    States must put the work requirements into effect by January 1.

    States must "make the changes, test the changes to make sure 
    they're not going to break the system, and then go live," 

    "It takes states literally months — usually years — to make the
    types of changes to their systems that they needed to make for 
    this new rule,"

    The nearly 400-page interim final rule released Monday makes
    that process even harder. 
    
    [During the previous] months, federal officials met with states
    informally and states understood that people with conditions
    where continuous health insurance coverage was really important
    would be exempt.

    "What the [new] rule says, as published, is that that's actually
    not enough,"

    "The condition or the disease needs to be actively interfering 
    with your ability to work. So people with early stage cancer who
    are in radiation treatment but still have the capacity to work, 
    or people who have HIV but can still technically work, are not
    exempted from the work requirement."

    Dr Oz pitched this as "a path to prosperity"