‘You can’t even cover them’: Andy Biggs’ 2011 bid to end Medicaid in Arizona
During his tenure as a state senator in 2011, Republican gubernatorial nominee Andy Biggs sought to abolish Arizona’s Medicaid program to address rising taxpayer costs. Biggs argued that the healthcare program was fiscally unsustainable and would place an undue financial burden on future generations.
When Andy Biggs, the Republican nominee for governor, was a state senator, he tried to abolish Medicaid in the Grand Canyon State because it cost taxpayers too much to provide health insurance for low-income Arizonans. “When we allow the generations in the future to be robbed and enslaved to pay for the healthcare costs of […]
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