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Colo. Republicans Worry About Affordable Care Act

by KREX News Room
by Associated Press

Story Created: Jul 5, 2012 at 12:54 PM MDT

Story Updated: Jul 5, 2012 at 8:03 PM MDT

DENVER- Expanding Medicaid coverage is one of the key provisions of the federal health care law that the Supreme Court upheld.

But the ruling also gives states wiggle room to reject the expansion.

Colorado Republicans have expressed concern about whether the state can afford the expansion.

The Denver Post reported Wednesday that a Kaiser Family Foundation study shows Colorado would spend $470 million for its share of the Medicaid expansion between 2014 and 2019.

The study says the federal government's share of the expansion for Colorado would be $6.9 billion during that time, or 94 percent.

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Why Worry said on Thursday, Jul 5 at 8:48 PM

Why Worry? The Dems say it is going to be fine. That the government's 13,000 pages of tax increases is for our own good. They say that a liberal socialist government will make health care affordable for at least the poor. They seemed convinced that a government that has not done anything right for 60 years will make an about face and clearly make the health care tax act a huge success for all. So again WHY WORRY?

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