Arizona Drops Children’s Health Program

By KEVIN SACK, Published: March 18, 2010

Arizona on Thursday became the first state to eliminate its Children’s Health Insurance Program when Gov. Jan Brewer signed an austere budget that will leave nearly 47,000 low-income children without coverage.

The Arizona budget is a vivid reflection of how the fiscal crisis afflicting state governments is cutting deeply into health care. The state also will roll back Medicaid coverage for childless adults in a move that is expected to eventually drop 310,000 people from the rolls.

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This is no good. I wish they would make CHIP the very last thing they would cut. Not good at all.


-- Edited by Sanders on Wednesday 24th of March 2010 12:54:49 PM