State Children’s Health Insurance Program – Arizona

KidsCare enrollment shrinking since signups frozen, By Ginger Rough, May 15, 2010, Arizona Republic: “The number of children participating in Arizona’s health-insurance program for working families has dropped dramatically since the state stopped allowing new enrollments in January, according to newly released figures. From Jan. 1 to May 1, enrollments in the KidsCare program plunged more than 26 percent, from 45,820 to 33,708. Much of the drop is due to normal attrition – from kids who age out of the program at 19 and parents who fail to make enrollment payments, don’t fill out paperwork or lose a job and thus eligibility. But some is because the state froze enrollment at the end of 2009. There are now more than 40,000 applicants on a waiting list for coverage…”