SPRINGDALE, Ark. — Representative Steve Womack met with local healthcare leaders on Friday to discuss the growing impact of the ongoing federal government shutdown on patients, providers, and community services across Arkansas.

Womack emphasized the connection between the shutdown and the state’s healthcare system, warning that delays in government payments and services are already being felt in his district.

Womack says that "If we don't have a solution to this problem, get the government reopened, get back to 26 appropriations work ... I think we're going to create some second and third order effects that we’ll live to regret, with regard to food insecurity and bad health outcomes.”

Womack said that delays in government funding and lapses in health coverage force people to postpone es

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