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Don Hughes, a health-care adviser to Gov. Jan Brewer, said Arizona decided to pass on the opportunity to run its own health-insurance exchange and leave the job to the federal government because there were just too many unanswered questions about how it would be regulated.

Az official says too many questions doomed state-run health program

Feb 15, 2013 ◇ Connor Radnovich/Cronkite News Service

Arizona gave up on running its own health-insurance exchange and turned the job over to the federal government instead because of uncertainty over how a state program would work, an Arizona official testified Thursday. Read more»

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Arizona was one of the states that showed a 6.1 percent drop in mortality rates over five years after they expanded their Medicaid coverage, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Study: Az death rates shrank when Medicaid coverage grew

Updated Jul 30, 2012 ◇ Jerilyn Forsythe/Cronkite News Service

Arizona’s 2001 expansion of Medicaid coverage resulted in lower death rates in the state, according to a study of several states that links increased coverage to fewer deaths and overall better health. Read more»


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