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Arkansas

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts) Thu Oct 24, 2013, 04:49 PM Oct 2013

Arkansas' Medicaid expansion draws 62K approved applicants since signup started Oct. 1

Arkansas' Medicaid expansion draws 62K approved applicants since signup started Oct. 1

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — More than 66,000 Arkansans have applied for health insurance under the state's expansion of the Medicaid program as part of the federal health care overhaul.

The state's Medicaid director told legislators on Thursday that of those, just over 62,000 applications have been approved.

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Full article here: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/2733bf64604e45fc885e47fbd508a572/AR--Health-Care-Overhaul

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Arkansas' Medicaid expansion draws 62K approved applicants since signup started Oct. 1 (Original Post) Tx4obama Oct 2013 OP

This is really great. We will have a healthier generation BlueToTheBone Oct 2013 #1

BlueToTheBone

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1. This is really great. We will have a healthier generation

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Wed Oct 30, 2013, 03:22 PM

Oct 2013

coming up. They will be the ones to benefit, being able to go to a doctor as a child.

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