Sarah Huckabee Sanders is asking the Trump administration to approve a waiver that allows Arkansas to impose a work requirement for "able-bodied, working-age" recipients of the Medicaid expansion ...

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced a push for a new work requirement for people on Medicaid.She sent a letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nominee for U.S. Department of Health and ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has submitted a waiver to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, seeking approval to implement a new work requirement. In a letter ...

Kristi Putnam, who runs the Arkansas Department of Human Services under Sanders, said it will apply to Medicaid expansion beneficiaries ages 19-64. That is significantly harsher than the ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced her plans for a Medicaid work requirement at a Tuesday news conference. Sanders said the program will update the existing ARHOM ...

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday announced that Arkansas is seeking federal approval to add a work requirement to its Medicaid expansion program. “The requirement is simple,” Sanders ...

In 2013, something remarkable happened in Arkansas. We became the first Southern state to expand our state’s Medicaid program. A decade can feel like a lifetime ago in the world of politics.

But Republican leaders are likely to block it. Sanders, meanwhile, said she wants to keep Arkansas' Medicaid expansion in some form. Arkansas was one of a few Southern states that expanded ...