Arizona Central
By: Ken Alltucker
More than 22,000 Arizona children in low- and moderate-income families get health insurance through a federal program that Congress failed to reauthorize by a Sept. 30 deadline.
Those children won’t immediately lose their health insurance because the program’s funding will extend through the end of the year.
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“Some states are in a bind,” said Joan Alker, executive director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families. “They are being told, ‘Don’t worry, it is going to be fine,’ but it is a very dicey situation.”
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