We are heartbroken to see HB1004, a bill to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage, fail to get out of Senate committee today. Arkansas has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country. As we have traveled around the...
Cuts to Medicaid would mean cutting critical support and services for children in foster care in Arkansas and their families.
Medicaid coverage is connected to better health and lower rates of disability over time.
AACF Testimony on March 4, Senate Committee on City, County and Local Affairs Camille Richoux, Health Policy Director, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families For almost 50 years now Arkansas Advocates has worked to ensure that children and their...
Over the next 10 years, Arkansans would lose nearly $10 billion in health care coverage.
Lack of insurance, not Medicaid coverage, is a well-documented risk factor for poor health.
The budget proposals would be extremely harmful. And they do nothing to fulfill elected officials’ promises of easing economic burdens or bringing down the price of groceries.
Our leaders must take Medicaid funding cuts off the table.
We are working to highlight the impact of Medicaid in Arkansas communities through stories of lived experience.
We have been heading in the wrong direction when it comes to child health insurance trends, and it’s time to turn things around.