More on Arkansas’s private option

Austin Frakt

March 9, 2013

Arkansas’s “private option” — to cover its Medicaid expansion population with private exchange plans — is on sound legal footing if its costs are “comparable” to standard Medicaid. But what does that mean? I’m not going to get into it because Adrianna McIntyre and Karan Chhabra already have in a new post. Just read them.

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Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @afrakt. His day job is Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

More on Arkansas’s private option

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More on Arkansas’s private option

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