‘A Big Positive’: How One Company Plans to Profit From Medicaid Cuts - The New York Times
New work requirements are expected to leave millions of poor Americans uninsured. For Equifax, which charges states steep prices for its trove of employment data, it is a business opportunity. Credit...Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg Supported by By Sarah KliffMargot Sanger-Katz and Asmaa Elkeurti The reporters are covering the challenges states face setting up Medicaid work requirements. They welcome tips at nytimes.com/tips. When Equifax’s chief executive spoke to investors this summer, he described a “just massive” new business opportunity: helping states enforce the Medicaid work requirement that is expected to leave millions of poor people without health insurance. Equifax has, for years, dominated the business of verifying Americans’ incomes, a crucial piece of data for banks writing mortgages or landlords renting apartments. The giant domestic policy bill that congressional Republicans passed this summer is about to make the company’s services even more lucrative. Beginning in 2027,
Credit... Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Listen to this article · 13:20 min Learn more Share full article 178 By Sarah Kliff Margot Sanger-Katz and Asmaa Elkeurti The reporters are covering the challenges states face setting up Medicaid work requirements. They welcome tips at nytimes.com/tips. Nov. 3, 2025 Updated 7:49 a.m. ET When Equifax’s chief executive spoke to investors this summer, he described a “just massive” new business opportunity: helping states enforce the Medicaid work requirement that is expected to leave millions of poor people without health insura
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