arkansas i do have to teach, yeah. arkansas sort of has their own version of the medicaid expansion. it s basically using federal funds to buy private health insurance for poor and low income. in some ways people are saying this will be a model for red state legislatures in a don s t want to expand medicaid. is this a good thing or bad thing? i m support tough of it because we need to see which policies are better. is putting poor people in the private insurance market going to increase their health or are they better protected in medicaid. we don t know the answer so it s a good experiment. that was the whole idea behind these kind of doing different things in different states and seeing which ones work and propagating them. it is a living law.