Arkansas officials confident people on Medicaid expansion will retain health coverage

Arkansas Secretary of Human Services Janet Mann said Monday that she expects the more than 215,000 people on the state’s Medicaid expansion to retain some form of health coverage, despite the Trump administration’s moves to end the hybrid program.Mann told lawmakers she’s confident the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will grant the state’s request for a two-year extension of the expansion, also known as Arkansas Health and Opportunity for Me, or ARHOME