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'ARKids'

The Medicaid mess: More than 25,000 beneficiaries (including ARKids children and the medically frail) still don't have coverage for medication

Gov. Hutchinson said that the "overwhelming majority" of beneficiaries who had coverage terminated would be helped by a deal cut with Blue Cross and Ambetter. He forgot about more than 25,000 who still have no pharmacy coverage — including 8,000 medically frail and 8,000 kids on ARKids.
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A tribute to Mike Huckabee and Asa Hutchinson, the health governors

Some kind words from the left end of the spectrum for Republican Goernors Huckabee and Hutchinson and their work on universal health care.
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Tom Cotton likes puppies but his platform would cut funding for health coverage for up to a third of the state's residents

If Tom Cotton got his way, he would cut funding for health coverage used by a third of the state's residents, with 13 to 18 percent of the entire state's population potentially losing their coverage entirely.

Tom Cotton would repeal the private option — and cut more out of Medicaid, ARKids on top of that

Tom Cotton refuses to acknowledge that repealing Obamacare means kicking 200,000 Arkansans off of their private option health insurance coverage. When pressed, he dodges and says he'd start over and block grant Medicaid. What he's not telling you? What he means is eliminating the private option and then cutting Medicaid even further, using block grants to slash funds used to provide health coverage to the the most vulnerable citizens in Arkansas — elderly people in nursing homes, the disable, kids in ARKids, and very poor parents.
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Republicans use fraud claim to achieve damaging aims

The down-the-rabbit-hole moment of the morning is the analysis of a Texas runoff for Senate that pits a Tea Party candidate against someone seen as more Republican establishment oriented.
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