Medicaid is the primary culprit behind state and local governments’ bleak financial outlook, according to an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) review of data recently released by the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The financial security of local governments will “rapidly deteriorate in less than a decade,” said Michael S. Greve, John G. Searle Scholar at AEI [...]
The Arizona Daily Star on Monday examined a measure appearing on Arizona’s November ballot that would amend the state’s constitution to prohibit laws that mandate people obtain health coverage, or that restrict an individual’s choice of private health care systems or private health plans. Proposition 101 also would prohibit laws that interfere with an individual’s [...]
The Wall Street Journal’s “Health Blog” on Wednesday examined a measure that will appear next month on Arizona’s ballot that, if passed, would amend the state’s constitution to say that no law “shall impose any penalty or fine, of any type, for choosing to obtain or decline health care coverage or for participation in any [...]
Since 2003, Arizona has approved less than one in five appeals from consumers whose insurance companies refused to pay for a claim or approve a medical procedure, the AP/Arizona Daily Star reports. Arizona, which examines dozens of cases annually, is one of 44 states that provides independent review of health insurance coverage disputes, according to [...]
Arizona voters in the Nov. 4 election rejected the ballot measure Proposition 101, known as the Freedom of Choice Healthcare Act, the Vail Sun reports (Grimes, Vail Sun, 11/12). The measure would have amended the state’s constitution to prohibit laws that mandate people obtain health coverage, or that restrict an individual’s choice of private health [...]
Two Arizona surgeons on Tuesday unveiled a 2008 statewide generalelection ballot proposal that would prevent mandated health coveragefrom ever being enacted in the state, the Arizona Republicreports. Jeffrey Singer, treasurer of the ballot measure campaign, saidthe proposal would preserve residents’ rights to purchase or abstainfrom purchasing health insurance (Pitzel, Arizona Republic, 9/26).
Theproposal, called the [...]
Largest private insurers in Arizona as well as Medicare, Medicaid and the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program now cover the VAP (Vertical Auto Profile) Test, the most comprehensive cholesterol test available. That means almost 90 percent of all insured lives in Arizona now have insurance coverage for the VAP Test, which finds twice as [...]
In Arizona if a patient does not have a health insurance coverage, but may be legal or illegal immigrant, there is a good chance the patient will be sent back to his or her home country to receive treatment. This happens to hundreds of legal and illegal immigrants in Arizona without health insurance as hundreds [...]