Beginning Wednesday (Nov. 1), Arkansans will have six weeks to shop for health coverage during an open enrollment period on the state and federal Health Insurance Marketplace. It will be the shortest enrollment period since the Affordable Care Act became...
Recently, we shared our analysis of the latest ditch effort by some members of Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act. This week, Governor Hutchinson publicly shared that he joined a small group of Republican governors who gave input...
Last month, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson vowed to make third-grade reading a top priority, building on the impressive work the state has already done to bring more children into early education programs. Now the federal push to scrap the...
Currently, the health care issues in the forefront are the Private Option (or newly coined Arkansas Works) program and whether we will adopt a Medicaid managed care model, which will continue to be debated by the Health Care Reform...
If you missed the blogs on managed care and private option changes, check those out before reading this final blog in our series on health care reform. Today, we will look at work requirements in Medicaid. After months of...
We’ve previously recapped options to change the Private Option that the Health Reform Legislative Task Force will consider recommending to the Governor by the end of the year. Among these changes two common themes have emerged: increasing personal responsibility...
Statement from Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) Executive Director Rich Huddleston: AACF strongly supports the Private Option. Over 100,000 Arkansans now have affordable health coverage and the financial security that comes along with it, some for...
One of the most debated issues of this fiscal legislative session will likely be Arkansas’s Private Option. As legislators consider whether to continue to ensure that 250,000 Arkansans can access affordable health coverage, it’s important to have the facts...