Children’s Health Insurance Program – Arizona

Number of AZ children enrolled in KidsCare drops, By Max Levy, August 31, 2011, Houston Chronicle: “The number of children enrolled in a state-federal health insurance program for youth on the brink of poverty has plummeted from a peak of 66,317 in May 2008 to 16,662 this month, the lowest level since 1999. The drop comes as demand for the program is going strong: In July, more than 100,000 children were on the waiting list for KidsCare, the state’s version of the federally sponsored Children’s Health Insurance Program. More than half of the decline has come since Jan. 1, 2010, when the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System froze enrollment in KidsCare in response to a lack of funding, according to its website…”