And so I'm a 28 year old kid in my state legislature and I'm chairing the health committee and this. And Arizona does something very unique in our Medicaid system. We were Arizona was the last state to enter Medicaid, not until the mid-80s. I actually was a part time page during the negotiations. But in Arizona we do something odd. We buy managed care policies. So we functionally buy managed HMO policies for the technical term is our indigent population. (28:48–28:51)
CLAIM
Asserts that Arizona was the last state to join Medicaid in the mid-1980s.
This is an excerpt from a raw transcript. The assertions have not been audited or verified. Tap the video to view the source footage and understand the context.
