Arizona Restores Health Care For Poor
Arizona will continue to fund its health-care
programs for the poor at current levels, at least for the time
being.
Without comment, Gov. Jan Brewer on Thursday signed legislation restoring funds that had been taken from the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state's Medicaid program. The move, designed to save money, would have dropped more than 310,000 people from the program effective Jan. 1. The new law also reauthorizes and finances the KidsCare program. That provides nearly free health insurance to children of families who earn too much to qualify for AHCCCS but still less than twice the federal poverty level, or $36,620 for a family of three. Brewer insisted on the move after President Obama signed new federal health-care legislation. One provision of that measure requires states to continue funding health-care programs at current levels or forfeit all future health aid. That would have totaled about $7.8 billion a year, far more than the savings by scaling back both programs. |
There is some evidence that participants in school-based out-of-school-time programs “did their homework more consistently and, in some cases, achieved higher grades in school.”
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