With the wallet empty for KidsCare, Ducey quietly pushes for funding for children's health
Gov. Doug Ducey was not shy in making clear his position on repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act.
But he's been quiet on another federally funded health-care program: the Children's Health Insurance Program, known in Arizona as KidsCare. It provides health coverage to kids whose families make too much to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to buy insurance on their own.
Unlike "Obamacare," as the ACA is known, CHIP has lost its funding, because Congress failed to reauthorize the legislation that pays for the program by the Sept. 30 deadline.
Arizona's KidsCare account is running on fumes. Boosted by an extra $22 million in leftover federal money, the program is still on track to run out of money by late November. That would force the state to kick more than 23,000 kids off the program.
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