CHRTlines

Recent Posts

05/14/2012 Poverty and Health: A Connection We Can't Ignore

04/30/2012 Cardiac Care - A Case Study in Practice Variation

04/16/2012 One Courageous Woman

Viewing entries tagged with 'rationing'

View all posts »

Arizona and Bad Public Policy on Health Care

Marianne Udow-Phillips

Posted by Marianne Udow-Phillips on January 10, 2011

The Arizona Medicaid program has been much in the news lately for its decisions to deny Medicaid coverage for certain transplants. The state has variously argued several things about these decisions. First, that these are evidence based decisions; that is, that the transplants were denied because the research shows that they don’t actually work. But, when challenged by transplant surgeons and others, the state has given other reasons for their denial, with cost being at the top of the list.

Read full post »
1 comments »

Tags: , , , ,