A Department of Social Services effort to pare back a program that gives Medicaid benefits to low-income single adults has been decried by health advocates who say it undermines efforts to provide more people with health coverage.

In October, DSS Commissioner Roderick Bremby wrote to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services office in Boston, asking for a waiver to change the low-income adult program, making it more difficult to qualify for coverage and allowing the state to cap enrollment. In Bremby’s letter, he said the program as it exists is financially unsustainable.

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