What Would You Ask the Candidates? We’ve seen a lot of fireworks lately from our fellow Americans in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act. Those fireworks started two years ago and built to...
Supreme Court upholds health reform; more Americans will now have coverage Supreme Court upholds health reform; more Americans will now have coverage This morning’s decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to uphold the Affordable Care...
Making Sure the Health Insurance Exchange Works For Arkansas Families The Arkansas Insurance Department is quickly moving forward with its efforts to build a health insurance Exchange by January 2014. Though Arkansas will have a federally-facilitated Exchange, stakeholders are...
Don’t Cut the Kids Governor Mike Huckabee and the state General Assembly established the ARKids First program in 1997 (with the help of then-Senator Mike Beebe who was the lead sponsor of the legislation). Since then, ARKids First has...
Health Care Advocacy Having a Positive Impact on Kids According to a new report from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Mathematica Policy Research, advocacy organizations in twelve states have reduced the number of uninsured children over the past...
It’s Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day “Prevention Works. Treatment is Effective. People Recover.” So goes this year’s slogan for Mental Health Awareness Month. May 9th is a special day in that month – it’s Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day....
Affordable Care Act helps Arkansas kids get preventive care More than 64% of Arkansas’s children have gained or maintained access to cost-effective preventive care services as a result of the Affordable Care Act, according to a new fact sheet...
This week child advocates celebrate the two year anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act. When the health reform law takes full effect in 2014, Americans can no longer be denied coverage based on so-called “pre-existing conditions,”...
The Corporation for Enterprise Development released their Assets and Opportunities Scorecard recently, and the news is not great for Arkansas. On balance the state ranks 44 out of 51 (all U.S. states and the District of Columbia), but the...
AACF releases study showing that more Arkansas kids are being covered by health insurance, yet many challenges remain. The number of uninsured children dropped in Arkansas even as families continued to feel the effects of the recent recession. Our...