KUAR | By Ronak Patel
Since the beginning of the year, Arkansas has been disenrolling members from Medicaid. At the end of last year, Congress passed legislation that ended the public health emergency that was enacted due to the pandemic. The legislation required that Medicaid enrollees who were only eligible as a result of the pandemic be disenrolled starting this year.
In an interview with Talk Business & Politics, House Minority Leader Tippi McCullough, D- Little Rock, said she has been concerned with how the process has gone.
“The process of forms is taking a long time. Then people are getting kicked off and reapplying to get back on so it’s such a complicated process that people are bound to fall through the cracks,” she said.
Tess Vrbin/Arkansas Advocate
Reps. Tippi McCullough and Ashley Hudson (both D-Little Rock) talk on the House floor March 8, 2023. Both spoke against and voted against Senate Bill 199 on the floor and in the March 7 House Judiciary Committee meeting.