By ROBY BROCK / TALK BUSINESS & POLITICS
Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care CEO Ray Hanley, a former Medicaid director for the state, said the lifting of the pandemic emergency order was "pretty inevitable," but he warns that a backslide is still possible. Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Thursday (May 20) said he would end his 14-month long Covid-19 emergency order on May 30.
"I think it was time and pretty inevitable. I think people have Covid fatigue. Nobody wants to wear masks again," Hanley said in an interview with Talk Business & Politics. "We’ve got about half the eligible population vaccinated or close to it and are all working hard on that. I think, emergency or not, we've still got to push really hard on the vaccination front."
https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/post/former-arkansas-medicaid-director-sees-good-news-arhome
Former director of Medicaid in Arkansas, Ray Hanley, sees bright spots in the state's latest version of Medicaid expansion, ARHOME.
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