Arkansas House Reauthorizes Alternative Medicaid Plan
The Arkansas House on Thursday voted 82-16 to reauthorize funding for the state's alternative Medicaid expansion through June 2016. Under the plan, Arkansas uses federal money for Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act to purchase private coverage for about 250,000 eligible low-income residents.
- "Arkansas' 1st-in-the-Nation Medicaid Expansion Survives" (DeMillo, AP/ABC News, 2/5).