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'Private Option'

Millions stand to lose health insurance under Donald Trump, whether they realize it or not

Americans dependent on the ACA for coverage have every reason to fear that Trump and the GOP will fulfill their campaign promises — in which case more than 20 million Americans would lose their health insurance.
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Governor wants a plan for Medicaid

The Human Services Department released this afternoon  a monthly update by Director Cindy Gillespie on people insured thanks to applications for Obamacare's Medicaid expansion — about 317,000.
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Dumas: Behind the Obamascare headlines

Ernest Dumas explains in his Arkansas times column this week how Obamacare's problems can be fixed; why it isn't going away, and, most pertinently, why it's more lucrative for Arkansas to continue to expand the coverage pool, not dream up ways to shrink it.

UPDATE: Obamacare proves popular in Arkansas

The state Department of Human Services' monthly report on enrollment in the Private Option health insurance program — Arkansas's version of the Medicaid expansion enabled by Obamacare, or the federal Affordable Care Act — shows even broader popularity than expected, some 300,000 covered against an expected 250,000.
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Study finds that Medicaid expansion has improved access to care in Arkansas

A new study in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine finds that poor Americans in states that expanded Medicaid under Obamacare have better access to medical care they need.

Republican split continues on expanded health coverage

The New York Times writes on a topic familiar in Arkansas — the divide between state-level Republican politicians and Republicans in Congress on use of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, whose Medicaid expansion has added nearly a quarter-of-a-million Arkansans to the rolls of the insured at no cost (and huge financial benefit) to the state.
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Medicaid and politics

Task force says keep expansion, but make major cuts.

Asa Hutchinson hates Obamacare but wants to keep Obamacare-funded Medicaid expansion in Arkansas

Anti-Obamacare Arkansas Republicans in Congress keep voting to take away funding for the private option. Gov. Asa Hutchinson opposes Obamacare too, but he wants to keep taking Obamacare funding to "continue the coverage for the expanded Medicaid population." The same funding that Sen. Tom Cotton and company keep voting to snatch it away.
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On Medicaid "lockout" provision, Gov. Asa Hutchinson hedges

Last week, Gov. Asa Hutchinson was gung-ho about locking out Medicaid beneficiaries from coverage for six months if they failed to make premiums. This week? He may be changing his tune.

Gov. Hutchinson's fight for Arkansas-style Obamacare. Update: his task force approves his plan

The debate on continuation of the Arkansas version of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion is underway. Who'll pay for Gov. Asa Hutchinson to get the continuation he wants?
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How the consultant hand-picked by private option foes might help save the private option

In many ways, the Stephen Group is describing the same lay of the land on the private option that lots of other folks have been describing for years. But this time, the aginners might actually listen.

Americans for Prosperity slams Gov. Asa Hutchinson on private option

As I noted earlier today, Gov. Asa Hutchinson is hoping to add some conservative bells and whistles to the private option, but that doesn't change the fact that he is recommending a continuation of the Obamacare-funded Medicaid coverage expansion in Arkansas.  Americans for Prosperity-Arkansas, the conservative advocacy group that has poured millions of dollars into legislative races in the last two cycles, is not satisfied with Hutchinson's effort to re-brand.
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