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By: Raúl M. Grijalva
April 22, 2016
Raúl M. Grijalva, a congressman, wrote a letter to the Arizona State Senate President Andy Biggs, where he expressed his concerns on Arizona’s children healthcare status, and provided information supporting the ‘motion’ to bring back the KidsCare program on 2017.
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Ending the enrollment freeze on KidsCare is not only an economic win for the state, but a win for those families that are now forced to pay higher cost to afford insurance elsewhere. According to Georgetown University Center for Children and Families: “Children with significant health care needs will face substantially higher out-of-pocket costs in the marketplace, as well as limits on benefits, which will be especially difficult for lower income families who cannot afford to pay for non-covered services.”
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