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Insurance Coverage for More than 22,000 Low-income Arizona Kids in Jeopardy

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.

“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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