by - January 10, 2013 2:06 pm
Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe and officials with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced Thursday (Jan. 10) a health-payment system that could create savings of around $15 million during fiscal year 2014 and…
by - August 20, 2012 5:35 pm
About 1 in 2 doctors are burned out, showing signs of emotional exhaustion and little interest in work as patient loads increase, U.S. researchers found. Doctors working in emergency, family…
by - August 2, 2012 5:46 pm
In the coming months, state lawmakers and key constitutional officers will be making critical decisions on Arkansans’ options for health insurance through Medicaid, an insurance exchange, or the pure free…
by - July 25, 2012 5:33 pm
Republican legislative leaders in the House and Senate asked the Beebe administration to slow the process for a potential Medicaid expansion and to consider a laundry list of reforms. In…
by - July 23, 2012 10:03 am
Arkansans continue to oppose the federal health care law’s implementation despite a Supreme Court ruling and shifting national public opinion. Also according to the latest Talk Business-Hendrix College Poll, the…
by - July 15, 2012 8:53 am
Since June 28, the date the Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the mandate requiring individuals to purchase health insurance or…
by - July 9, 2012 11:07 am
Texas Governor Rick Perry said today he will not expand the state’s Medicaid program or create an insurance exchange, saying President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul represents “brazen intrusions into the…
by - June 28, 2012 4:55 pm
Judges can say things politicians can’t. So it was left to U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts to use the three-letter word for the individual mandate that President Barack Obama…
by - June 28, 2012 1:53 pm
Following Thursday’s (June 28) ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld President Barack Obama’s health-care plan, Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe said his job is to implement a system that…
by - June 28, 2012 1:49 pm
The hospital industry in Arkansas approves of the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding most of President Barack Obama’s health-care plan, but the national trade associations representing retailers — including Wal-Mart…
by - June 28, 2012 9:44 am
BLOOMBERG — The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the core of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, giving him an election-year triumph and preserving a law that would expand insurance to millions…
by - June 21, 2012 1:55 pm
BLOOMBERG — Republicans have pledged to “repeal and replace” President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul. If the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the law, they may struggle to deliver on the…
