Pro-life dispute: Conflicting definitions further complicate Brewer’s Medicaid expansion proposal
Gov. Jan Brewer forcefully declared that her proposal to expand the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System to hundreds of thousands of new patients is a pro-life plan. As a pro-life governor, she said, she will not sit idly by while people suffer. Since then, opponents of her plan have taken up the pro-life mantle in the Legislature.
Arizona homeless programs get $2.2M federal boost
New homeless programs in Arizona have just received a boost from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Department Secretary Shawn Donovan on Tuesday announced a $2.2 million award for homeless programs in the state.