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But CMS Administrator Seema Verma says there's no plan to slow implementation of the work requirement rules. Since June, more than 12,000 beneficiaries in Arkansas have lost their Medicaid coverage, and thousands more are poised to be dropped next month. Verma thinks it’s “very possible” that people left Medicaid coverage because they found a job or “decided that they didn’t want coverage." Other Medicaid news comes out of Maine, Kentucky, Georgia and Minnesota.