The financial fallout from repealing Obamacare without replacing it will make everything else Arizona’s policymakers have so far worried about look like small potatoes.

The two remaining health insurers in Arizona's federal health marketplace will both be raising rates by more than 50 percent next year.

Pinal County won't have a company offering marketplace health insurance plans next year following the nation's third-largest health insurer's decision to exit public exchanges in all but four states.

Five insurance companies that had offered coverage in the Affordable Care Act marketplace have told Arizona regulators that they will opt out or scale back coverage when the next open season for Affordable Care Act coverage begins Nov. 1.

Health insurance giants Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona and Health Net have announced they will stop offering federal marketplace plans in Maricopa and Pinal counties.

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.

Thwarted in earlier attempts, Republican supporters of a program to provide health insurance to the children of the working poor outmaneuvered their own leadership Thursday night to have the measure given approved by the House.

The House of Representatives rejected an attempt to restore a federally funded children’s health insurance program over concerns that it would “blow up the budget.”

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) are critical for low-income families. KidsCare has been frozen since 2010, and the Legislature now has the opportunity to include lifting the freeze in their budget negotiations, while the federal government picks up the tab.

One of Arizona's largest health care insurers is leaving the state's Affordable Care Act marketplace, a move that would reduce or eliminate options in rural counties.