Tag: arizona health insurance

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Arizona Health Insurance Cuts Proposed in Budget

Arizona health insurance may be seeing deep cuts in 2010. The proposal will terminate an expected 42,000 jobs across the state and will incur a loss of federal funding up to $2.7 billion. The proposal by Jan Brewer will reduce the number of residents eligible for the Arizona Health Care […]

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Arizona health insurance Fighting Child Obesity

Childhood obesity is becoming a problem and Blue Cross Blue Shield Arizona health insurance is making efforts to change the outcome. Almost a third of the state’s children are overweight or obese. Therefore, Blue Cross Blue Shield Arizona health insurance created the Walk On! Challenge. An initiative to get children […]

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Arizona Health Insurance Financial Crisis

Governor Jan Brewer is facing almost the worst financial crisis in Arizona history. In looking to reduce budget spending for 2011 the Arizona health insurance program for kids ( Kids Care ) might be affected. The children’s Arizona health insurance program has currently stopped enrollment and if eliminated will reduce […]

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Arizona Health Insurance Budget Crisis

Arizona health insurance : As the budget crisis continues, legislative leadership has started showing some signs of support for Governor Brewer’s proposed  temporary one-percent increase in the sales tax. Even if the governor can sway the General Assembly, the proposal would have to be voted on in a special election […]

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Arizona Health Insurance care cuts draw criticism

There is a proposal by Governor Jan Brewer to cut 300,000 people from the Arizona health insurance plan for the poor. Already, AHCCCS fees to doctors have been frozen. Health providers face a total cut of $67.7 million in state and federal money. The Hospital and Healthcare Association protested the […]

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Arizona Health Insurance Dropping Children From KidsCare

ARIZONA health insurance : Governor Jan Brewer has presented a proposed budget that would decrease spending by reducing the number of Medicaid recipients by 300,000 and by dropping 47,000 children from the Arizona health insurance KidsCare program. Under the proposal, the state would also stop providing mental health benefits other […]