Asked And Answered | Monica Coury: Under an Arizona Plan, Smokers and Obese Would Pay Fee for Medicaid

Friday, May 27, 2011 - 01:50 in Psychology & Sociology

The state would like charge childless adults on Medicaid who smoke or are obese $50. “What we want to test is whether making people pay is going to affect behavior,” said a spokeswoman for Arizona’s Medicaid program. “We think it will.”

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