Arizona Statewide Health Care Initiative (2008)

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This measure did not
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Arizona Statewide Health Care Initiative was an initiative that would have provided statewide health care for the state of Arizona for children and adults who cannot get insurance because of pre-existing conditions. This would have been funded by an increase in alcohol or sales taxes to provide the health coverage.

The Healthy Arizona Coalition was forced to abandon the initiative after the group could not gather enough funding to support the ballot measure. The group blamed Arizona's slow economy and it being the epicenter of the Republican presidential campaign. The group would have also had to raise millions in funds in order to fight the alchohol industry which would certainly oppose the tax increase.[1] The group plans to instead place the health care initiative on the 2010 ticket.[2]

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  1. ↑ East Valley Tribune, State-funded health care measure falls off ballot, April 23, 2008
  2. ↑ Arizona Republic, Coalition abandons campaign for state health-care initiative, April 22, 2008
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