While the president touted Arkansas last week as an exchange success story, one broker says the situation there is far from praiseworthy.
“Arkansas … has covered almost 14% of its uninsured already. That’s already happened,” said President Barack Obama to applause on Oct. 30 during his Affordable Care Act remarks in Boston. But Joe Childers, broker and owner at Watershed Benefits in Little Rock, says those numbers may be a fluke. That’s because those enrollees were likely able to bypass Healthcare.gov (the state is a federally run exchange) due to a unique Medicaid situation there.
