The Washington Post’s Wonkblog reports that the feds have developed a simpler application for health coverage under the federal Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.

Many more people in Arkansas will be able to fill out these applications for federally financed health insurance coverage thanks to the Arkansas legislature, and particularly the leadership of the Republican Party. They embraced Obamacare after an all-out war on the program in election 2012. The GOP did get some whopping tax cuts for multi-millionaires in return.

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