This text of "For" argument #1 can also be found at the Arizona Secretary of State's Web site.

The HEALTHY ARIZONA INITIATIVE proposes that people who go off welfare by getting a job should be allowed to keep their health insurance so that if they or a member of their family get sick they will not have to go back on welfare. Today, about 70% of those who do not have health insurance are working, many of whom were recently on welfare.

The problem: the official poverty level for the state insurance system is so low that you have to be practically destitute to qualify. If you come off welfare by taking a job that pays more than $1.53 an hour, ($3182 a year), you lose your AHCCCS health insurance!

We want to correct that. So does almost everyone else. The initiative is bipartisan and has no organized opposition. It requires no additional state money or new taxes. If additional spending were to be required later, the money is already there - it was put there by your fellow citizens as part of the cigarette tax last year.

Clearly, if you believe that the incentives to work ought to be greater than the incentives to remain on welfare, you should support this initiative.

Vote Yes on Prop 203 on November 5th!

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