Related topics prenatal care Advertisement According to an article in the Arizona Republic, Arizona taxpayers pick up the tab for the delivery of more than half of all babies born in the state. This is costing the state over $200 million a year. What is surprising is that our state leaders were never aware that this cost has been rising since 2000. In 2011, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), Arizona's Medicaid program, paid for 53 percent of the state's 84,979 births. "I had no idea that the number had grown to that ridiculous level," said Rep. John Kavanagh, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. "That's shocking and depressing." What's even more depressing...
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