Medicaid work rule tops governor debate

CONWAY -- Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Democratic challenger Jared Henderson disagreed Friday whether scrapping Hutchinson's work requirement for the Medicaid expansion program would kill support for the program in the Legislature.

They also sparred over Henderson's proposed criminal justice overhaul that's aimed at saving money in the long run.

Along with Libertarian candidate Mark West of Batesville, Hutchinson of Rogers and Henderson of Little Rock debated for an hour at the Arkansas Educational Television Network here in their second debate of the campaign. The program was to air Friday night.

Henderson, a former state director of the Teach for America program, said Hutchinson has created a new bureaucracy and a part-time website "to put between some of our citizens and access to health care."

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