This month, the Arkansas Department of Human Services soft launched new work requirements for the state’s Medicaid expansion program. Ozarks at Large’s Daniel Caruth has more details.
On July 1, the Arkansas Department of Human Services launched its new welfare to work requirements for adults enrolled in the Arkansas Health and Opportunity for Me (ARHOME) Medicaid program. It’s an initiative that Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been pushing for since taking office. Here she is announcing the work requirement plan at a press conference in 2025.
“220,000 able bodied, working age adults in Arkansas receive free health care, courtesy of the Arkansas taxpayer. It cost us more than $2.2 billion each year and growing. Of those recipients, estimates show that nearly 90,000 have no job.”…