Pearce vows to impose Medicaid work requirement

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Republican Steve Pearce said Friday that he would immediately issue an executive order — if he’s elected governor — requiring able-bodied people without children to work if they receive Medicaid.

It would help return the “dignity of work” and the “power of earned success,” he said, to poor New Mexicans who rely on the government for health care.

“We should be encouraging less dependency on the government and more self sufficiency,” Pearce said Friday in a speech to business and community leaders gathered for a meeting of the nonpartisan Economic Forum of Albuquerque

Pearce is competing with Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham in New Mexico’s race for governor. Both are giving up seats in Congress to run.

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