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.