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Health care reform could cost AZ $7 billion

• East Valley Tribune

The new federal health care plan could cost Arizona $7 billion a year if lawmakers here don't restore the cuts they made to insurance programs.

Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Phoenix, said the scheduled elimination of Kids Care on June 15 would put the state at odds with a provision in the federal measure that requires states to maintain their programs as they are today when President Barack Obama signs the bill.