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'Medicaid expansion'

No regrets for states that expanded Medicaid

The Brookings Institute takes a look at states that expanded Medicaid and finds no evidence of regret: "The strong balance of objective evidence indicates that actual costs to states so far from expanding Medicaid are negligible or minor, and that states across the political spectrum do not regret their decisions to expand Medicaid." That includes Arkansas, the state where Medicaid expansion has survived despite a perfect storm of political obstacles.
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Senate passes continuation of Medicaid expansion 27-2

The Arkansas Senate is debating the state Human Services Department's medical services  appropriation, with its continuation of the Arkansas Works program to expand Medicaid coverage in Arkansas under Obamacare.
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Surprise. Poor people have trouble paying for Medicaid

Requiring premiums for Medicaid coverage isn't working well in Arkansas or other states. Good new: The Affordable Care Act is increasingly popular, except with Republicans like Leslie Rutledge.

Legislative budget session begins today: health care in the balance

The legislature meets. The big question: How cheap will the state choose to be in helping working poor get health coverage? Also on the agenda: Supreme Court legal bills.
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As Medicaid expansion work requirements loom, no additional funding for work support services

The Trump administration guidance that gave the go-ahead to states seeking Medicaid work requirements suggests that states should offer supports for beneficiaries subject to the requirements. The catch: There will be no additional Medicaid funding to pay for such services. Arkansas, which has a pending request for work requirements, has no plans to invest additional state funding into work support services such as job training, relying on existing resources even as it plans to implement the work requirement program for tens of thousands of Medicaid beneficiaries.

Federal rule change should clear way for Arkansas Medicaid cuts

The Trump administration today announced rules for Medicaid that should clear the way for the deep cuts Gov. Asa Hutchinson wants to make in the Medicaid expansion program in Arkansas.
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Governor to talk about health care, highway funding

Gov. Asa Hutchinson will entertain media questions at a 9:30 a.m. session today that is said to cover health care and highway funding. Questions need to be asked about impact on people, not just the state budget, from recent insurance premium increeases and Donald Trump's cut of federal subsidies.

In backing Obamacare repeal, Arkansas governor would trade billions of dollars for more state flexibility

Hutchinson said Tuesday that the Graham-Cassidy bill "does not represent a significant cost-shift to the states." Yet several health care experts said the proposal would slash projected federal funds to Arkansas by billions of dollars.
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Census data shows Arkansas's rate of uninsured cut in half since 2013

Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families highlights another remarkable figure in the Census data: "Arkansas’s uninsured rate for children dropped to just 4 percent in 2016, a new record."

Indiana's Medicaid expansion offers a clue on coming Arkansas changes

Indiana expanded Medicaid coverage. But it made poor people have some skin in the game, much as Arkansas is preparing to do. It hasn't been pretty.
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The economic stimulus of Obamacare

The New York Times devotes front-page space to the obvious today: Ending Obamacare not only could cost lives and good health for many Americans it could damage the economy.

Governor's proposed cuts to Medicaid eligibility will increase costs for working poor; likely to increase uninsured rate

Speaking before a joint session of the legislature, which is reconvening this week for a special session, Hutchinson argued that these 60,000 Arkansans "will not lose access to coverage" and would get "the same level of financial support that they have now." The truth is a little more complicated.
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