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Gov. Jan Brewer was quick to criticize the Supreme Court's decision upholding the federal health care overhaul. But look for her to take her time charting a course on whether and how Arizona should implement a key part of the law.
The Supreme Court scrapped the overhaul's requirement that states expand eligibility for their Medicaid programs. That made the expansion optional, and some Republican governors have already said they won't implement it.
But Brewer's healthy policy adviser Don Hughes said it could be months before there's enough information to make an informed decision, particularly now that there may be changes in the expansion's scope and timing.
At stake is health coverage for over 300,000 low-income Arizonans at a potential state cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
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