Arizona Court of Appeals Upholds State Medicaid Cuts

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The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld massive cuts to the state's Medicaid program, keeping Arizona's precariously balanced budget intact and dealing a severe blow to advocates who said the partial enrollment freeze violated voter mandates.

The court today rejected a liberal advocacy group's arguments that state law and voter initiative requires the Legislature to fund the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System with "any other available sources" if money from a court settlement with tobacco companies fell short. The ruling stated that the provision is a political question that is not open to interpretation by the judiciary.

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Arizona Court of Appeals Upholds State Medicaid Cuts

"Determining whether the Legislature has, as it has stated, or has not, as petitioners argue, provided supplemental funding fro...

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