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Arizona health insurance : As the budget crisis continues, legislative leadership has started showing some signs of support for Governor Brewer’s proposed  temporary one-percent increase in the sales tax. Even if the governor can sway the General Assembly, the proposal would have to be voted on in a special election in May. New bills introduced this session include: elimination of pre-existing condition exclusions; guaranteed issue of coverage Medicare Supplemental policies to those under 65 needing end-stage renal disease care, an oral chemotherapy parity mandate; a reduction in the small group rating bands; a defined contribution portal patterned after Utah’s; and a resolution against federal health care reform

There is a proposal by Governor Jan Brewer to cut 300,000 people from the Arizona health insurance plan for the poor. Already, AHCCCS fees to doctors have been frozen. Health providers face a total cut of $67.7 million in state and federal money.

The Hospital and Healthcare Association protested the plan to transfer AHCCCS’ remaining graduate medical education money and nearly all private disproportionate hospital dollars to other uses. Already the state has only 219 doctors for every 100,000 people, while the national average is 293 physicians for every 100,000.  It is economically shortsighted to cut into hospital budgets as hospitals create jobs.

Dosctors say we will have to raise our rates to Arizona health insurance companies and those people who can pay will ultimately pay for the state’s lack of coverage. Whoever pays their hospital bills is paying for those who are not paying their hospital bills. Otherwise the hospital goes out of business.

ARIZONA health insurance : Governor Jan Brewer has presented a proposed budget that would decrease spending by reducing the number of Medicaid recipients by 300,000 and by dropping 47,000 children from the Arizona health insurance KidsCare program. Under the proposal, the state would also stop providing mental health benefits other than medications for people who do not qualify for Medicaid. Despite the focus on fiscal issues, the legislature has begun introducing bills affecting Arizona health insurance. Early bills include: PBM regulation; expanding chiropractors’ scope of practice; allowing groups of one in the small group market, and oral chemotherapy parity.