(The marketplace is how people who aren’t covered through an employer, family member, or Medicaid typically buy health insurance.) After weeks of delay from the state, we finally got our FOIA response from the Insurance Department earlier this month. The big population that ARHOME brings to the health insurance marketplace in Arkansas means that the marketplace’s stability is tied to Medicaid expansion. That leaves about 80,000 people expected to purchase individual policies on the Arkansas marketplace next year. “Enrollment projections are made by insurers.”Enrollment projections for 2026 are referenced in the actuarial filings BlueCross and Centene have made with the Insurance Department.