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Beat ’em or join ’em? Federal health care law forces lawmakers to decide what they dislike less
By offering states the option to run a key piece of the federal health care overhaul, the law is forcing Arizona’s lawmakers into the ultimate conundrum: Do nothing and potentially lose significant control over the state’s health care system or help implement a program they’d rather see in the gutter.
Interest group ranks Arizona near the bottom in children’s health care
Arizona ranks among the lowest-performing states in the nation for children’s health coverage, riding the bottom line for access, affordability and equity, according to a national report.
We don’t need no stinkin’ federal money
Pearce last week quickly backed away from statements he made about how the state should stop funding AHCCCS and drop out of the Medicaid program, but some of his fellow Republicans think that may be an idea whose time has come.
Additional Medicaid funding stalls in Congress putting AZ in a bind
Hope is fading that Congress will approve hundreds of millions of dollars that Arizona is counting on to operate its Medicaid program, and state lawmakers don’t know whether they’ll have to scrounge for cash, beg for help or drastically downsize the state-run health care system.
Brewer signs bill to restore AHCCCS, KidsCare funding
Gov. Jan Brewer on May 6 signed a bill to restore funding that was stripped from AHCCCS and KidsCare, a move aimed at preventing the loss of more than $7 billion in federal money for health care.
