AZ Chamber of Commerce makes the case for socialized medicine

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http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/biz-topheadlines/324820

Gov. Jan Brewer wants to take away state-paid health care for hundreds of thousands of Arizonans as a way of balancing the state budget.
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That 2000 ballot measure requires the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state's Medicaid program, to provide free care for everyone below the federal poverty level, now $18,310 for a family of three.
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Glenn Hamer, president of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said those forced off the AHCCCS rolls will eventually end up in hospital emergency rooms with more serious conditions because they can't get the routine care they now are provided. Hospitals, which can't turn them away, will pass the cost on to other patients, meaning higher rates and higher insurance premiums, and that could cause some employers to drop coverage.

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1. K & R.

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2. Brewer is up for re-election this year

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4. She may not even make it out of her primary.

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3. k & r n/t