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Beyond the Ozarks

First the Private Option, Then Arkansas Works, Now State Proposes ARHOME

KUAF | By Kyle Kellams

Published March 9, 2021 at 2:15 PM CST

From left: DHS Director Cindy Gillespie, Rep. Michelle Gray, Governor Hutchinson and Sen. Missy Irvin at the March 1, 2021 press conference announcing the proposed ARHOME program.

Arkansas Health & Opportunity for Me, or ARHOME, is the latest proposed chapter in the saga of expanded Medicaid in Arkansas. Gone are work requirements, replaced by incentives. We asked David Ramsey and Benjamin Hardy, from Arkansas Nonprofit News Network, about a recent ANNN article examining the complexities of ARHOME.

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Kyle Kellams

Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.

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