Children will lose access to affordable health coverage if state drops part-time teacher and state employee insurance
Changes to the health insurance Arkansas provides to its educators and state employees are being debated by the legislature. The state is considering stopping contributions to part-time employees’ health coverage […]
Bailey Perkins to rejoin AACF as state policy fellow
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families is proud to announce that Bailey Perkins will soon be joining the organization as a state policy fellow, in partnership with the Center on […]
Crossing into new territory with 25,000 newly-covered kids
At Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, we’ve been working for many years to ensure that all children have health coverage here in our state. Our latest report, Crossing […]
HUGE NEWS – 25,000 kids with new health coverage
Since last fall, nearly 25,000 children now have health coverage through ARKids First, Medicaid, or private insurance – a dramatic increase. The bump in the number of children with insurance […]
Get enrolled: one student’s enrollment story
For 26-year-old Nate Kennedy, health coverage under the Affordable Care Act arrived not a moment too soon. On January 2nd, the day after his new “silver” health plan kicked in, […]
Arkansas’s Private Option lives on, with new amendments. Now what?
Tuesday, Arkansas’s House of Representatives passed the Department of Human Services Division of Medical Services appropriation for the 2015 fiscal year, by a margin of 76-24. The reason this is […]
AACF statement on passage of the Private Option
A statement from Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families Executive Director Rich Huddleson: Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families commends Arkansas lawmakers for supporting the Private Option. An overwhelming majority […]
Looking back, forward for Marshallese families in Arkansas
Today in Arkansas we mark Nuclear Remembrance Day, to raise awareness of the nuclear tests that the United States conducted in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and to honor […]
Dr. Wells – Private Option will help my patients
The Private Option is helping Arkansans. But don’t take it from us. Take it from Dr. Bill Wells, who has been helping low-income patients in and around Heber Springs for […]
Amendments to Private Option are bad public policy, will hurt enrollment
Statement from Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) Executive Director Rich Huddleston: AACF strongly supports the Private Option. Over 100,000 Arkansans now have affordable health coverage and the […]