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.
New data from the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) reveals what advocates have warned: Arkansas’s refusal to extend Pregnancy Medicaid coverage to 12 months postpartum is leaving thousands of mothers without critical health insurance coverage just weeks after...
Medicaid is an essential health insurance program that provides coverage to hundreds of thousands of Arkansans.
Arkansas’s Medicaid expansion program for adults, known as ARHOME, helps keep our state’s labor force healthy. Having insurance protects part-time workers, caregivers, and lower-income families from financial hardship and provides peace of mind to many across the state. Medicaid...