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Budget nuggets: winners, prospective teachers, horse breeders; losers, some kids
Plan to replace Obamacare stirs fear in families, creates political pickle
US OKs end to Arizona enrollment freeze in program for kids
Federal officials have approved Arizona’s plan to allow additional low-income families in need of affordable health insurance to enroll their children for coverage for services in September. The action by...
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Ducey role in KidsCare passage minimal, but crucial at the end
As the debate raged over the restoration of KidsCare, a federally funded health insurance program for low-income children, Gov. Doug Ducey remained firmly on the fence. Ducey hadn’t voiced any...
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Children’s health insurance program to begin in September
Low-income Arizona families in need of affordable health insurance for their children can begin receiving coverage in September under a new plan offering relief for the working poor. State health...
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Ducey signs KidsCare children’s health insurance bill
Senate passes KidsCare, sends measure to Ducey
House Republicans reject KidsCare restoration in budget
After a bout of optimism that the Legislature would restore a federally funded children’s health insurance program for the first time in six years, Republican lawmakers sealed its fate when...
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Dems, advocates push for KidsCare
KidsCare is an important health resource for Arizona families
In my five decades of providing medical care to Arizona children, I have realized that Medicaid (AHCCCS) and KidsCare (Arizona’s version of a Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP)...
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Backers of insurance for poor children hope to pressure Biggs
Stymied by the Senate president, supporters of restoring health insurance to the children of the working poor are hoping to apply some very visible public pressure. At a rally Monday,...
