AR: In Arkansas, ‘Private Option’ Medicaid Plan Could Be Derailed

The New York Times: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Last year, the Republicans who control this state’s Legislature devised a politically palatable way to expand Medicaid under President Obama’s health care law. They won permission to use federal expansion funds to buy private insurance for as many as 250,000 poor people instead of adding them to traditional Medicaid, which conservatives disparage as a broken entitlement program.

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