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A patient at Tucson’s University Medical Center has died after being refused a liver transplant due to budget cuts—the second person in the state to die while reportedly waiting for one of the transplants that were cut. Arizona stopped paying for certain organ transplants covered by Medicaid on Oct. 1, due to a $4 million coverage shortfall. Between 95 and 100 people have been taken off the waiting list for organ transplants since then. The incoming Arizona Senate minority leader has pre-filed legislation to restore the transplant coverage.