GOV. BREWER FOLLOWS A HALLOWED GOP TRADITION

and LIES about what the health care reform bill will cost Arizona:

Longer term, though, Brewer has estimated that the requirements of the law would force Arizona to spend an extra $4 billion between 2013 and 2016.

Here's the truth:

Healthcare reform fallout: Which states are the winners?

States' Medicaid programs will have to grow dramatically to meet the demands of healthcare reform. Those states that have already started the process could come out ahead financially.


By Ron Scherer, Staff writer / March 26, 2010
Christian Science Monitor

The biggest winners, state officials and Medicaid experts say, could be those states that have already taken an important step toward expanding their own Medicaid programs: covering childless adults.

The reason for the coming windfall: These states are already paying for something that the new healthcare plan will soon mandate, and as the law's provisions begin to kick in, the federal government will actually pick up much of the burden that these states are now bearing.

The winners: 11 states plus D.C.

The 11 so-called "expansion states" states are: Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin, plus the District of Columbia.