Medicaid expansion

The Trump administration on Wednesday appealed recent rulings in a closely watched case involving health care for the poor, after a federal judge blocked work requirements for some low-income people on Medicaid. read more >

More than 4,300 people who were on Arkansas' expanded Medicaid rolls have lost coverage because they didn't comply with a new work requirement, making them the first to get kicked off the program under the rule. read more >

In a major policy shift that could affect millions of low-income people, the Trump administration said Thursday it is offering a path for states that want to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients. read more >

The Medicaid expansion helped cut the state’s uninsured rate in half. What would the proposed changes coming from the governor and Republicans in Congress mean for those who rely on that coverage? Let’s take a look. read more >

The Medicaid expansion helped Baxter County Regional Medical Center survive and thrive, but a federal repeal bill threatens to imperil it and its patients. read more >

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson says the state will resume its push to terminate Medicaid coverage for thousands of people, despite complaints that many being kicked off the program still qualify. read more >

Campaign promises often can’t be kept, and sometimes shouldn’t be. And elected representatives need to feel free to change their minds if conditions change, as they clearly did with the Medicaid private option. read more >

The chairman of the House Public Health Committee says a proposal to use federal Medicaid money to purchase private insurance for 250,000 low income Arkansans gives Arkansas a unique opportunity to shrink its Medicaid rolls and show other states how to reform health care. read more >

Here's a date-by-date look at how Medicaid expansion perhaps came to Arkansas. read more >

During Ray Montgomery’s leadership of 24 years, White County Medical Center has acquired a local hospital, built a cancer center and undergone extensive facility improvements. Montgomery has served on the board of the American Hospital Association and now serves on the board of the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care. read more >

A proposal to use federal money to purchase private insurance for 250,000 low-income Arkansas residents passed Friday in the state Senate, advancing an idea that Republican legislative leaders and Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe are promoting as an alternative to expanding Medicaid enrollment. read more >

The Arkansas Senate last week gave its official blessing to the proposed $1.1 billion steel mill that Gov. Mike Beebe and state economic development officials want to see on the banks of the Mississippi River just outside Osceola. read more >

The state Legislature’s approval of the expansion of Medicaid to the 250,000 Arkansans who aren’t on it is critical, says Dr. Dan Rahn, the chancellor of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. read more >

In his “State of the State” address last week, Gov. Mike Beebe made a clear and logical appeal for expanding Medicaid as contemplated under Obamacare. read more >

Gov. Mike Beebe and the state’s first Republican-controlled Legislature since the 1870s presided over a period of mostly settling in as the 89th General Assembly convened last week. read more >

Gov. Mike Beebe says he's willing to talk with the federal government about what flexibility Arkansas may have in expanding Medicaid under the federal health care law. He also talked about the state Supreme Court ruling on school funding and the state's minimum wage. read more >

To turn down hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding just because we wish it weren’t so would be beyond foolish. It would, by all accounting, end up costing the state more in the long run and would leave a quarter million of our friends and neighbors in medical limbo unnecessarily. read more >