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Health care law safeguards KidsCare, AHCCCS – budget will be $400 million short
Most Americans won't see any real impact from the new federal health care law for several years, but the effects will be immediate for the hundreds of thousands of Arizonans who were about to lose Medicaid coverage.
AHCCCS: Health care bill to cost AZ more than $1B per year
The landmark health care bill passed by Congress is expected to cost Arizona more than $1 billion a year, according to a study by the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System.
Health care bill may leave $400M hole in budget
Arizona's balanced budget lasted for about two days before the congressional health care bill took out a chunk that may total $400 million for the next fiscal year.
Brewer: Federal health care bill would exacerbate state’s problem
As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares for what may be its final vote on a health care bill, Republican Gov. Jan Brewer and Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema sounded off on the contentious proposal.
AHCCCS reports it might have to eliminate KidsCare
Lawmakers this year eliminated a health care program for middle-class parents, but now the state-run health insurance program for children is on the chopping block. The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System has reported it would have to eliminate the KidsCare program if it is required to trim 15 percent of its budget in the 2010 fiscal year.
Lawmakers save KidsCare; health care for parents still slated for cuts
Advocates for children's health care are breathing a little easier after Republican lawmakers released a budget draft on April 27 that avoided funding reductions to state-run health care programs for children in low-income families.
