Colorado Senate Votes to Expand Medicaid

The state Senate voted Monday to expand government health insurance for the poor, a key part of the federal health-care law known as Obamacare...Under Senate Bill 200, adults making 133 percent of the federal poverty level – $15,282 for a single person – would qualify for Medicaid. The cost to insure the extra people will approach $1 billion a year next year, but the federal government will pay all the costs the first few years.More than 800,000 Coloradans lack health insurance. Aguilar said her bill is projected to cover 187,000 of them...  [Source: COPrevent]