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Arkansas’ new work requirements come at a hard moment for state’s fragile healthcare system

Andrew DeMillo
Posted 7/12/26

Arkansas’ brief experiment with Medicaid work requirements several years ago showed health policy researchers the real-world implications of an idea long championed by conservatives. Researchers’ findings were strikingly consistent. The requirements didn’t boost employment as promised and led to an uptick in the state’s uninsured. Now state leaders are about to try the requirements again, […]

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