"if work requirements are ever attempted to be removed, the Iowa Health and Wellness plan would be shut down by the state department of health and human services."

The need to pay for childcare would eat up most of this minimal income.

The trigger rule has to be illegal, right? How can they bind future legislatures? Or judges?

For reference Iowa unemployment rate is 3.3%

https://workforce.iowa.gov/labor-market-information/indicators/local

The local Dollar Store has been closed all week because it doesn't have enough staff ($15/hr).

But several friends who were laid off from tech jobs have been out of work for months, and every job they apply for gets dozens of applicants.
The middle section of the job market really seems tight.

Anyway, I agree. In fact, if Congress made it a law that everyone working more than 20 hours a week for an employer (it's now 28 hours) gets health insurance, then the workers wouldn't need Medicaid.

I'm on Medicare, so no longer need insurance. But I still work, and I actually had a job that was locked at 28 hours a week precisely so they wouldn't have to pay for health care.
Off topic. But if we had nationalized health care, they wouldn't need Medicaid or rules for Medicaid.

to the labor pool that now includes children

Why drag this out? Evil personified.

So will child care come with the work requirement???