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TexasTowelie

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Tue Mar 9, 2021, 06:29 AM Mar 2021

Arkansas panel OKs proposed overhaul of Medicaid expansion

LITTLE ROCK — An Arkansas Senate committee on Thursday endorsed a plan to overhaul the state's Medicaid expansion to encourage rather than require recipients to work.

The Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee advanced the legislation after the state's previous Medicaid work requirement was blocked by the courts and President Joe Biden's administration.

The reworked program will still place recipients on private insurance paid for by federal and state funds. Under the proposal, though, those who don't work or attend school could be moved to a traditional fee-for-service Medicaid program. More than 300,000 people are currently on the state's Medicaid expansion.

The legislation now heads to the full Senate for a vote.

Read more: https://www.baxterbulletin.com/story/news/2021/03/05/arkansas-medicaid-expansion-proposal-overhauled/6903917002/

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