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Ducey signs KidsCare children’s health insurance bill
Arizona is going to restore a program it shelved six years ago to provide health care to the children of the working poor.
The deal: Notable new policies make the state’s 2017 budget agreement more than just a group of numbers
Lawmakers like to say that a budget is a reflection of values. But it’s also a collection of policies, some of which might not have stood a chance as stand-alone measures.
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) 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 gover[...]
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.
House panel OKs bill restoring children’s health insurance
A bill to provide health insurance for thousands of Arizona children cleared a hurdle Tuesday as lawmakers unanimously passed a measure to lift a freeze on a program covering low-income kids.
Bill would make agencies prove their regulations are necessary
State lawmakers are moving to effectively stand state regulation of businesses on their head, requiring government agencies to prove their rules and restrictions are necessary.
1st public hearings on Medicaid changes find wide opposition
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey wants able-bodied Arizonans on the state's Medicaid program for the poor to pay into health savings accounts and be charged co-pays for some services, but those proposals and others he's touting got a tough reception at the first meeting where the public was allowed to weigh in.
Health, homelessness are linked, and must be addressed, advocates say
Sister Adele O’Sullivan said Mr. 280 was a homeless man with chronic mental illness whose trips in and out of the hospital racked up bills of more than $358,000 over several years.
Ducey says he won’t reconsider position on state-run Obamacare exchanges
Gov. Doug Ducey may have just cost more than 200,000 Arizonans a shot at keeping the health insurance they received through the Affordable Care Act, though they won’t know for sure until the U.S. Supreme Court rules this summer.
Ducey signs legislation to allow lab testing without a doctor’s order
Arizonans who want to want to run their own lab tests will soon be able to do so without first visiting a doctor. But your insurance company won’t pick up the tab.
State health Services director to join University of Arizona
The state's longtime director of the Department of Health Services will soon join the University of Arizona.
House bill would make schools post vaccination rates to websites
A Democratic lawmaker wants to require Arizona schools to post health-related information on their websites including immunization rates among students – information he says is especially important given the measles outbreak originating at Disneyland.
