Arkansas’ Governor Says Medicaid Extension for New Moms Isn’t Needed
6 weeks after an emergency situation cesarean area, with her newborn twins still in neonatal extensive care, Maya Gobara went to a drug store in West Little Rock, Arkansas, to fill a prescription.
"The drug store informed me I didn't have insurance coverage," Gobara stated.
Arkansas is the only state that has actually not taken the action to broaden what's called postpartum Medicaid protection, a choice for states spent for practically totally by the federal government that makes sure bad ladies have undisturbed medical insurance for a year after they deliver. Forty-six states now have the arrangement, motivated by the Biden administration, and Idaho, Iowa, and Wisconsin either have strategies in location to enact legislation or have costs pending in their legislatures.
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