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'Arkansas private option'

State to misleadingly tell poor Arkansans their health coverage is going away, but that's probably not true

Rep. Donnie Copeland's silly, cruel, pointless, mean-spirited, misguided bill to send a letter to private option beneficiaries telling them that their health coverage is ending Dec. 31, 2016 passed the House yesterday 81-19. It's on to the governor, who will sign it into law. Has there ever been a more perfect example of lawmakers' yen for meaningless posturing over sensible policymaking? The thing is, Copeland's threat isn't just misleading, it's almost certainly wrong. The private option might get some re-branding, but it's very unlikely that coverage is going away.
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Legislature proceeds with meaningless grandstanding gesture likely to confuse private option beneficiaries

The Senate yesterday passed Rep. Donnie Copeland's bill to send a letter to everyone enrolled in the private option telling them that "the program will end on December 31, 2016" and "the coverage provided by the program expires on December 31, 2016." In fact, the governor's task force is expressly charged with continuing coverage, so the letter is a meaningless gesture from grandstanding Republicans. It is likely to scare and confuse poor people in Arkansas, but that's just collateral damage.
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The economic impact of the private option

The Arkansas private option projects to have an economic impact on the state's gross domestic product of $9.25 billion over ten years and job growth of 8,500 according to a report put out yesterday by the federal Department of Health and Human Services.

A private option in Georgia?

Georgia has the second highest uninsurance rate in the nation and has turned down billions in federal dollars in refusing Medicaid expansion. Perhaps a look to the west can offer this red state a way forward.
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Arkansan of the Year: Asa Hutchinson

For embodying the story of the modern Republican in Arkansas — and for finally winning — Gov. Asa Hutchinson is our Arkansan of the Year for 2014.

It's official: Say hello to Gov. Hutchinson

Asa Hutchinson was sworn in as governor this morning in a House ceremony. New: He set a date for revealing his ideas on what to do about Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, but gave no clue if it would stay or go or how it would change if it did stay.
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Credit ACA for quality care

"There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit," Ronald Reagan marveled, stealing a line from Harry Truman, who borrowed it from a British translator of Plato and Thucydides.

Asa Hutchinson takes questions on the session: Tax cut first

Asa Hutchinson continues to save tax cuts first and private option later in talking with reporters about his plans for the 2015 legislative session.
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UAMS: Hospital revenues up, university's down

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital saw a 7 percent increase in revenues for the first quarter over last year's first quarter revenues, or $10.2 million.

The races to watch tonight impacting the future of the private option

Here's your cheat sheet for legislative races that could impact the private option. Health insurance for more than 200,000 Arkansans is at stake.
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Health exchange rollout expected today

David Ramsey will be working later today on the expected release of insurance costs on the new health exchanges under the expansion of coverage provided by the Affordable Care Act.
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