LITTLE ROCK — State Rep. John Burris, R-Harrison, one of the architects of Arkansas’ so-called private option, has accepted a private-sector job as a consultant on health policy issues.
Capitol Advisors Group of Little Rock, a public affairs and issue management firm, announced Thursday it will employ Burris starting in January. Burris is term-limited in the House and lost a Republican primary for a state Senate seat earlier this year.
The company said Burris will focus on expanding its health policy consulting practice, both in Arkansas and in Washington, D.C.
Burris was chairman of the House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee for the past two years and was House minority leader in 2011 and 2012. He was one of the principal architects of Arkansas’ version of Medicaid expansion, the private option, which uses federal Medicaid money to subsidize private health insurance for the working poor.
Burris also served as political director for Republican Tom Cotton in his successful campaigns for Congress in 2012 and the U.S. Senate this year.
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