butterbean
Joined: 21 Jun 2006
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 Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:41 pm Post subject: Health Insurance Held Up Over Citizenship Rule |
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Health insurance for hundreds of low-income Arizonans is in limbo, and thousands more await word that they’ve been reauthorized under a new federal requirement to prove U.S. citizenship.
The state has hired more than 80 new eligibility workers to scour databases, hospital records and other documents that would show where people were born or confirm their citizenship in other ways.
Since the law took effect July 1, no one has been denied coverage because they couldn’t show such proof, said Rainey Day Holloway, a spokeswoman for the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state’s version of Medicaid.
And state health officials have not yet set a deadline for the more than 5,200 cases they were working as of Sept. 30, she said.
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http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=76810 |
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