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Solutions? Good grief! The Texass bagger is so deep in denial about infant mortality even being an issue so as to question its existence! You then have the chutzpah to mention one of the greatest scientists of all time! The derangement required to post such things online is incalculable.
Because states cannot consistently fund....say for example, programs like KidsCare (child health insurance)....when state revenue declines.... because of failing home values.....due to a Bush recession.Why is spending never questioned when it is tied to compassion? The baseline budgeting has to change and it is time to return the Federal Govt. back to its roots and return ALL social spending excluding SS and Medicare back to the states..
Around 20 million fewer than would be without the ACA.How about ACA, how many people are still uninsured in this country?
You've constructed a nice little racket for yourself here, where no matter what Hillary Clinton says, you can just fall back on "she's lying!!!1"
Because states cannot consistently fund....say for example, programs like KidsCare (child health insurance)....when state revenue declines.... because of failing home values.....due to a Bush recession.
Around 20 million fewer than would be without the ACA.
hurr durr
But then again, you could say those stats are incorrect also......there are all sorts of deniability paths.
The KidsCare insurance program for children in low-income families remains in limbo pending state legislative action on next fiscal year's budget.That is your opinion and typical leftwing bs
The KidsCare insurance program for children in low-income families remains in limbo pending state legislative action on next fiscal year's budget.
Some action was anticipated this week, but the Legislature adjourned with no more than rumblings over progress on the spending package.
Arizona froze KidsCare enrollments in 2010 because of a lack of funding. It can be unfrozen under a federal promise to pay all the costs.
As a result of the changed federal policy, the Children’s Action Alliance wants the Legislature to unfreeze enrollment in KidsCare.
“If we unfreeze KidsCare, it would bring Arizona along with the whole rest of the country so that our kids won’t stay behind children in every other state and it gives parents an affordable option,” said Dana Naimark, president of the Children’s Action Alliance.
The Arizona House approved a bill unfreezing KidsCare, but it stalled in the state Senate, where Senate President Andy Biggs said he opposes it.
Biggs' office declined a request for an interview. Previously, he told other news media he opposed unfreezing KidsCare because although the federal government would pay for it, the money still comes from taxpayers.
Biggs is running for Congress in Central Arizona this year.
Naimark said his argument is an oversimplified way of looking at the issue.
“He is absolutely correct, it is not free," she said. "What we say is that it is covered by federal taxes Arizonans have already paid. So we’ve been paying our federal taxes, this is getting our share instead of having our dollars and our health care go to children in other states."
Doctors have said they see the firsthand what happens when young patients lose health insurance coverage.
“I see that in my own practice where I had patients on KidsCare and lost that insurance and they couldn’t come to see me, or felt they couldn’t financially,” said Dr. Eve Shapiro, an Oro Valley pediatrician.
Shapiro said those kids often end up in the emergency room to deal with a health crisis that could have been avoided with early doctor visits. She pointed out the ER and urgent care is more expensive than a regular doctor’s visit.
Most people think of children as healthy, but Shapiro said that is not the reality.
Many have chronic diseases like asthma. When it comes to chronic diseases, managing them with medication is expensive.
"Even when we were in flu season, the cost of Tamiflu, the drug for flu, has gone up to over $150 for a treatment and it used to be a few dollars,” she said.
The budget could be released next week and that may be the first time KidsCare supporters will know if they were successful.
If KidsCare does not make it into the budget, Arizona will continue to be the only state in the nation without a children’s health insurance program.
https://news.azpm.org/p/health-news...na-kidscare-funding-future-still-in-question/
WTF kind of insanity is this? Every state in the Union, including Texas, has a federally funded Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that did not suspend enrollment......except for...ARIZONA. Now we have a percentage of children NOT covered by Medicaid exceeding every other state except....wait for it....Nevada.....and....Texass.So as usual you expect the federal taxpayers to fund a local program in the state of Arizona?
WTF kind of insanity is this? Every state in the Union, including Texas, has a federally funded Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that did not suspend enrollment......except for...ARIZONA. Now we have a percentage of children NOT covered by Medicaid exceeding every other state except....wait for it....Nevada.....and....Texass.
What Canceling An Insurance Program Meant For Arizona’s Kids | FiveThirtyEight
So just to be absolutely clear, it is the right thing to stop the enrollment of the poorest of the poorest children, the most vulnerable citizen, in a basic health program, at the whim of a STATE right wing legislature.....even when federal tax dollars that AZ citizens paid out are available.Yes, a federal mandate and it is WRONG!!!!! Big govt. liberals like you always want the federal govt. to do what you cannot do in your state
So just to be absolutely clear, it is the right thing to stop the enrollment of the poorest of the poorest children, the most vulnerable citizen, in a basic health program, at the whim of a STATE right wing legislature.....even when federal tax dollars that AZ citizens paid out are available.
You have no grasp of the issue, even with plenty of documentation and explanation provided. AZ citizens have paid into Medicare, of which AZ CHIP is a part. The state legislature shut down the state administration of a federally funded program....even though federal funds were available. Families were forced into the private market, many could not afford those policies....and lots of kids went without any insurance.....causing the real rise in uninsured poor children.It is the responsibility of the state to handle state and local issues not the Federal taxpayers. If the federal govt. mandates it then that is the federal governments responsibility to fund it
You have no grasp of the issue, even with plenty of documentation and explanation provided. AZ citizens have paid into Medicare, of which AZ CHIP is a part. The state legislature shut down the state administration of a federally funded program....even though federal funds were available. Families were forced into the private market, many could not afford those policies....and lots of kids went without any insurance.....causing the real rise in uninsured poor children.
Even a broken clock..So CHIP is part of Medicare? That is news to me and most people as CHIP is part of Medicaid
Um, you just pointed out....it is a part of medicaid....that AZ taxpayers have paid into. The question is not a matter of rights of the legislature, it is an example of state legislature not providing for the welfare of the most vulnerable citizens...even when the funding is available.which is a joint venture between the state and federal govt. The state has the right to cut whatever part of that they want and your state has term limits yet for some reason you want to federal govt. and federal taxpayers to fund your local programs
Even a broken clock..Um, you just pointed out....it is a part of medicaid....that AZ taxpayers have paid into. The question is not a matter of rights of the legislature, it is an example of state legislature not providing for the welfare of the most vulnerable citizens...even when the funding is available.
Go on repeating the same moronic crap that you previously contradicted, it is money AZ taxpayers have ALREADY paid out....that the AZ legislature has deemed to not receive, to implement, to distribute to those families with children that need it. If a legislature withholds funds due to ideology, then yes, I would be happy for the federal govt to override the state.....just as what happened when other Southern conservative states deny blacks access to equal education. Your whole states rights argument breaks down on these examples...and you don't care who gets hurt....or dies. You are arguing for children to go without medical care to satisfy your ideologue sense of purity. Please, for gawds sake, don't ever tell me again about how you care for the poor, this example shows how hypocritical you are....once again.That is your opinion but obviously not viewed by your elected Representatives so when you don't get your way you look to the Federal Govt. to implement what you want? How liberal of you. Looks like the people of Arizona have spoken through their Representatives which correct me if I am wrong are term limited. You don't like the outcome lobby to change the legislature or better yet form a group in your own community to fund the program on your own. Stop looking to the federal taxpayers to fund state and local programs
By the way noticed you still cannot apologize for being wrong. that is another liberal trait
Go on repeating the same moronic crap that you previously contradicted, it is money AZ taxpayers have ALREADY paid out....that the AZ legislature has deemed to not receive, to implement, to distribute to those families with children that need it. If a legislature withholds funds due to ideology, then yes, I would be happy for the federal govt to override the state.....just as what happened when other Southern conservative states deny blacks access to equal education. Your whole states rights argument breaks down on these examples...and you don't care who gets hurt....or dies. You are arguing for children to go without medical care to satisfy your ideologue sense of purity. Please, for gawds sake, don't ever tell me again about how you care for the poor, this example shows how hypocritical you are....once again.
Those questions are better posed towards Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton.
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