Gov. Jan Brewer's proposal to eliminate health insurance coverage for nearly 50,000 children of Arizona's low-income working families will force parents to go to already-crowded community clinics and emergency rooms, according to a spokesperson for the Arizona Association of Community Health Centers.

Tara Plese, director of government and media relations for the association, is also concerned about the public health impact on all of us when thousands of kids are without health care, particularly six-to-nineyear-olds.

"That's an age where they're getting another set of immunizations, they're more prone to being sick because they're in school, they're getting sick, other children are getting sick, and it's a time when they probably visit doctors with more frequency."

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