A black hole of subsidized health coverage for Arkansas
The health-insurance exchange coming to Arkansas as part of the Affordable Care Act features subsidies to help folks making between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) buy insurance. There are no subsidies for folks making below 100 percent of the FPL because they were supposed to be covered by the Medicaid expansion. If the legislature says no to Medicaid expansion? Folks aged 19-64 making below 100 percent of FPL but above Arkansas's stingy income max for Medicaid will be left out in the cold. That would leave a hole in coverage that looks pretty ugly: poor folks without kids or making more than a fraction of FPL have no safety net, while the government subsidizes (relatively) more affluent citizens.
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Out of whack Arkansas hospital charges
How is it that a "major and small bowel" procedure at National Park Medical Center in Hot Springs is billed at an average $333,470, but only $19,740 at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro? Or that "infectious and parasitic diseases with OR procedures" are billed at $257,369 at National Park and $44,446 at St. Bernards?
- May 16, 2013
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Pigging out
Around 500 hearty souls braved the wind and the rain on an unseasonably cold May Saturday to attend the first annual Arkansas Times Heritage Hog Roast in Argenta.
- May 9, 2013
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Mud slinging
"Mud," the third feature-length film from Little Rock native Jeff Nichols, was released in town last Friday. Here's what critics, the film's actors, and Nichols himself are saying.
- May 2, 2013
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Re: Efficiency program from Entergy Arkansas could save you money
What's the saying? If it sounds to good to be true - it usually is.
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Re: More to watch at the Little Rock Film Fest
The police are beholden to & trained by fbi.
See my reports concerning…- on May 18, 2013
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Re: It was a good week for celebrity visits to Little Rock
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