{"id":625196,"date":"2026-05-05T17:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625196\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:08:36","slug":"governor-candidate-discusses-medicaid-rural-hospitals-and-education-vouchers-during-mh-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625196\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor candidate discusses Medicaid, rural hospitals and education vouchers during MH stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a visit to Mountain Home Saturday, Arkansas Democratic candidate for governor Fred Love spoke about his focus on Medicaid, rural healthcare and education vouchers as he prepares to challenge Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in the November general election.<\/p>\n<p>His third visit to the area saw various stops including the Mountain Home Farmers Market and a visit with the Democratic Party of Baxter County at the Donald W. Reynolds Library serving Baxter County.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wire-ready-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Wireready_05-04-2026-10-40-14_08400_LovewithVoter.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>KTLO, Classic Hits and The Boot News spoke with Love at the library about appealing to Baxter County voters, 74 percent of whom backed the Republican ticket in the 2024 presidential election.<br \/>Listen:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2786\/2026\/05\/04104035\/Wireready_05-04-2026-10-40-13_08401_91653.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2786\/2026\/05\/04104035\/Wireready_05-04-2026-10-40-13_08401_91653.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wireready-audio-link\" style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #000; font-family: arial; margin: 2px; display: block;\" href=\"https:\/\/dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2786\/2026\/05\/04104035\/Wireready_05-04-2026-10-40-13_08401_91653.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">click to download audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love, who has served in Pulaski County government and the state legislature, talked about how his administration would add support to rural hospitals like Baxter Health.<br \/>Listen:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2786\/2026\/05\/04104036\/Wireready_05-04-2026-10-40-13_08402_91654.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2786\/2026\/05\/04104036\/Wireready_05-04-2026-10-40-13_08402_91654.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wireready-audio-link\" style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #000; font-family: arial; margin: 2px; display: block;\" href=\"https:\/\/dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2786\/2026\/05\/04104036\/Wireready_05-04-2026-10-40-13_08402_91654.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">click to download audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Love the school voucher system implemented by Governor Sanders has hurt public schools and shares how rural school districts are in need of support to face rising costs.<br \/>Listen:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2786\/2026\/05\/04104036\/Wireready_05-04-2026-10-40-13_08403_91656.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2786\/2026\/05\/04104036\/Wireready_05-04-2026-10-40-13_08403_91656.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wireready-audio-link\" style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #000; font-family: arial; margin: 2px; display: block;\" href=\"https:\/\/dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2786\/2026\/05\/04104036\/Wireready_05-04-2026-10-40-13_08403_91656.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">click to download audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love outlined how his positions differ from those of current Gov. Sanders.<br \/>Listen:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2786\/2026\/05\/04104036\/Wireready_05-04-2026-10-40-14_08404_91655.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2786\/2026\/05\/04104036\/Wireready_05-04-2026-10-40-14_08404_91655.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wireready-audio-link\" style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #000; font-family: arial; margin: 2px; display: block;\" href=\"https:\/\/dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2786\/2026\/05\/04104036\/Wireready_05-04-2026-10-40-14_08404_91655.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">click to download audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Election Day for the general election is November 3.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WebReadyTM Powered by WireReady\u00ae\u00a0NSI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a visit to Mountain Home Saturday, Arkansas Democratic candidate for governor Fred Love spoke about his focus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-625196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}