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Arkansas’s Medicaid expansion program, Arkansas Works, is an important safety net for Arkansans affected by the economic downturn resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The program faces a number of hurdles in 2021, however, as ACHI President and CEO Dr. Joe Thompson notes in his column in the September-October 2020 issue of the Healthcare Journal of Arkansas.