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Health care politics, environment take the air out of asthma sufferers
The Arizona Department of Health Services estimates that the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, or AHCCCS, Arizona’s Medicaid program, pays for more than half of the estimated $115 million spent every year on asthma-related emergency room visits and hospitalizations.
McCain relies on Ducey for health care vote
Although Gov. Doug Ducey doesn’t have a vote on Congress’ health care plans, Arizona’s senators want to hear what he thinks and say his input could influence their votes.
State misses waiver deadline for able-bodied adults on Medicaid
Arizona missed its own deadline to send a waiver to the federal government asking for work requirements for able-bodied adults on the state’s Medicaid program.
Medicaid cuts are a matter of life or death for people with disabilities
The only reason I am able to have such a full life is Medicaid. Medicaid provides vital services to people with disabilities through a state-federal partnership that finances coverage for those who qualify. The program has successfully provided care to the most vulnerable Americans for the past 50 years.
GOP lawmakers, business groups argue against Medicaid cuts
While the U.S. Senate released a revised version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act on July 13, Republicans, business interests, and medical groups spoke out at Phoenix Children’s Hospital about the negative impact the plan would have on Arizona’s Medicaid recipients.
Groups join in condemnation of bill to repeal, replace Obamacare
As the U.S. Senate mulls over the Republicans’ health care bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, local opponents are crying foul on behalf of a variety of people facing cuts to their Medicaid coverage.
Arizona on course to relive health care ordeal if Congress cuts Medicaid
Arizona already knows what will happen if its Medicaid program falters. In 2011, the state froze enrollment for childless adults in its Medicaid system, leading to more than 160,000 left without coverage in a relatively short amount of time.
Arizona delegation urges Flake, McCain to maintain Medicaid
A Republican state senator and representatives from business and health care groups are urged GOP Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake on Tuesday not to back cuts to Medicaid as part of a health care overhaul bill.
Medicaid progress at risk as cuts to program loom
No government program is perfect, but Arizona’s Medicaid program – known as AHCCCS – is the gold standard when it comes to delivering quality, affordable health care. Our state’s Medicaid program uses an integrated, managed-care model that promotes competition and patient choice, controls costs and incentivizes preventative care.
Plan to replace Obamacare stirs fear in families, creates political pickle
The GOP bill, backed by House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Donald Trump, would effectively halt Arizona’s 2013 Medicaid expansion.
Access to overdose drug slow, but growing
Arizona enacted a law last year allowing the purchase of the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone without a prescription, but access to the drug has been slow.
Court of Appeals hears challenge to Medicaid expansion affecting hundreds of thousands
With former Gov. Jan Brewer watching over the defense of her legacy, a panel of appeals court judges grilled a lawyer who argued the Medicaid expansion Brewer shepherded into law is unconstitutional.
