A rising number of people in rural areas of Arizona are losing their health insurance, thanks to cuts to both the Affordable Care Act and the Arizona Healthcare Cost Containment System.
The cuts have hit areas like Gila, Navajo and Apache counties especially hard, given the high poverty rate, lack of primary care doctors and financially vulnerable hospitals.
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