We need our Congressional delegation to stand up for Arkansas and reject this reckless plan that will devastate our fellow Arkansans.
On August 9, 2022, Governor Asa Hutchinson announced that Arkansas will be expanding its Medicaid programs to include more coverage for new and expecting mothers. With the help of federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act, Arkansas will...
On November 1, 2022, the open enrollment period for health insurance plans under the ACA through the Health Insurance Marketplace begins.
Overall, federal investments shielded many Arkansas families from more severe hardship and helped shorten the country's economic crisis.
Lawsuit more dangerous than ever for Arkansans during pandemic and economic crisis If a lawsuit before the Supreme Court to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) succeeds, 230,000 Arkansans would lose health coverage, increasing by 152 percent the number...
Children in Arkansas are losing health insurance coverage at a staggering rate. In September, the United States Census Bureau published yearly data from its American Community Survey, as it has each year since 2008. This year’s data is a...
From shoring up rural hospitals to providing health insurance to unemployed Arkansans during a pandemic, the first decade of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has changed our state’s health care system for the better. Our new policy brief outlines the...
In our annual Finish Line report, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families looks at the status of health care coverage for Arkansas’s children and families. The report examines changes over the years and recommends actions to get Arkansas to The...
Trump Administration lawsuit would end health coverage for more than 299,000 Arkansans UPDATE: The Trump Administration filed its lawsuit late on Thursday, June 26, 2020. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting major recession, the Trump Administration and 18 state...
Will it finally be abandoned? On Friday, Feb. 14, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously upheld the District Court’s decision to strike down Arkansas’s addition of work-reporting requirements to its...