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Biden administration says premiums for Arkansas Medicaid expansion must end in one year

The Biden administration is telling states like Arkansas 'no' on experimenting with Medicaid expansion policies that could cause people to lose coverage -- first work requirements, now premiums.
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Looks like another loser for Leslie Rutledge, this one her defense of the Arkansas Works Medicaid expansion

The Arkansas Work Rule looks closer to permanently dead thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision today.
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Senate approves the reworked Medicaid expansion without the work rule

The reworking of the Arkansas Works Medicaid expansion breezed through the Senate today.

Inside ARHOME, the state’s new vision for Medicaid expansion

With Medicaid work requirements a nonstarter for the Biden administration, Arkansas officials are planning big changes to the Medicaid expansion program. But key details of the proposal remain vague.
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The new plan for Medicaid expansion -- carrot rather than stick

An incentive to work for better insurance is the cornerstone of the plan, but details remains hazy.

After Biden nixes work requirements, Arkansas explores new path forward for Medicaid expansion

The state may instead experiment with a new work “incentive” program that could shift many low-income beneficiaries from private insurance plans to traditional, fee-for-service Medicaid.
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State officials expect surge in safety net programs during COVID-19 crisis

The Arkansas Department of Human Services is bracing for the economic fallout of the COVID-19 crisis, as state officials anticipate that a rapidly increasing number of Arkansans will rely on the state’s social safety net programs in the coming months.

Study says Medicaid work requirement increased uninsured rate for Arkansans but did not boost employment

A study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine found that Arkansas’s Medicaid work requirement led to lower insurance rates among 30- to 49-year-olds in 2018, the group targeted by the first-of-its-kind work rule last year.
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Motion to expedite granted for Trump administration's appeal in Arkansas Medicaid work requirements case

With the expedited hearing, Hutchinson could have a chance to kick more people off of their health insurance by early next year.

Arkansas Medicaid sees enrollment bump

Though the rise is modest, it is notable because the Medicaid expansion population has shrunk almost every month for the past two years. As highlighted by Governor Hutchinson, enrollment peaked at around 330,000 in early 2017 but has been declining ever since.
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GOP's health care quandary

Republican officeholders, in Arkansas and everywhere, have found themselves in an impossible catch-22 — caught between mutually conflicting political demands by their voters. I’m talking about the political dilemma of choosing between the widely hated Obamacare and the highly popular provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

House passes Medicaid spending bill on second try

The Arkansas Houde Tuesday afternoon on its second try approved SB 99 the $8 billion Medicaid budget bill that includes the continuation of the Medicaid expansion known as Arkansas Works, but with a court order preventing enforcement of a work rule for qualification adopted two years ago.
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