Arkansans want what’s best for our children. We all want kids to have happy, healthy lives. Access to affordable medical care is an important part of overall health, and each Arkansan should have access to health care. But, as...
Data Across 50 States Show Struggles with Poverty, Health Indicators, But Hopes for Recovery Remain, Annie E. Casey Foundation Finds The number of Arkansas’s children going without health insurance surged dramatically between 2018 and 2019, continuing a troubling decline...
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) is conducting a Story Collection Project on the Arkansas Medicaid program. We want to highlight what is working and what needs to be made better for Arkansans using Medicaid. We want you...
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...
Federal Policymakers Must Increase Medicaid Funding and Maintain Strong Beneficiary Protections Medicaid enrollees working in essential frontline industries are among those at risk if federal policymakers fail to provide needed increases in Medicaid funding or weaken protections for program...
Arkansas’s intention to convert its Medicaid dollars into a block grant is another risky experiment that fails to protect the needs of Arkansas residents. Despite what some state officials might say, block grants limit the dollars our state would...
Arkansas’s Medicaid work reporting requirements not only kicked 18,000 Arkansans off their health insurance, it also raised premiums on some Arkansans who purchased their insurance through the state’s marketplace. Arkansas has faced widespread criticism for more than two years...
Open enrollment on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces begins November 1. This is a great time for consumers to examine the deals found on the marketplace, to save money and better meet their health care needs. In fact,...
The number of uninsured children increased nationally by more than 400,000 between 2016 and 2018, reversing a long-standing positive trend according to a new report released by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. Nationwide, more than 4 million children...
Every child should have their health care needs met. ARKids First provides low-cost or free health insurance for children across Arkansas. Nationwide, 1.1 million kids have lost Medicaid or CHIP coverage over the past 18 months. Arkansas is one...