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Arkansas House OKs Medicaid proposal
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Apr 17, 2013 07:39am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | KYLE CHENEY |
| News Date | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Arkansas House on Tuesday narrowly approved the state’s unusual approach to Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, keeping alive an effort that has led several GOP-led states to consider similar ways of using health law dollars to cover low-income people with private insurance.
The Medicaid language was part of an Arkansas budget bill, which passed 77-23 — narrowly exceeding a three-fourths requirement for spending bills — one day after the House had rejected the bill 68-29. Rather than put thousands of newly eligible low-income people into the state’s existing Medicaid program, the state wants its health department to buy them private health plans on the state’s new insurance exchange, also created by the health law.
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