Arkansas Explained: What’s Happening to the State’s Medicaid Expansion?

63,792 Arkansas Medicaid enrollees flagged as ‘not compliant’ with upcoming work requirement | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Notices went out to almost 64,000 enrollees in Arkansas' Medicaid expansion program earlier this month informing them they were "not compliant" with a work requirement scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1, a spokesman for the state Department of Human Services said.

Arkansas Explained: What’s happening to the state’s Medicaid expansion?

Arkansas was the first state to use a hybrid expansion model that purchases private health insurance for low-income people with federal funds.

Arkansas Explained: What’s happening to the state’s Medicaid expansion? - The Mexico Ledger

The Arkansas Department of Human Services building on Main Street in downtown Little Rock. (Photo by John Sykes/Arkansas Advocate)In a state led by Republicans who have often portrayed social services as handouts that keep people in poverty, Arkansas’ Medicaid expansion program has faced multiple attempts to kill it or limit who can access it. More than 837,000 Arkansans are on Medicaid, the federally-funded, low-cost insurance program for low-i…

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Arkansas Explained: What’s happening to the state’s Medicaid expansion? - Stateline Publications

The Arkansas Department of Human Services building on Main Street in downtown Little Rock. (Photo by John Sykes/Arkansas Advocate)In a state led by Republicans who have often portrayed social services as handouts that keep people in poverty, Arkansas’ Medicaid expansion program has faced multiple attempts to kill it or limit who can access it. More than 837,000 Arkansans are on Medicaid, the federally-funded, low-cost insurance program for low-i…