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CO Families Benefit from Health Care Reform

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Monday, October 4, 2010   

DENVER - Almost a half-million Coloradans are slated to get tax credits beginning in 2014 under the terms of the Affordable Health Care Act, according to a new report coming out today. Adela Flores-Brennan, who studies the economic impacts of health care issues for the Colorado Center on Law and Policy, says that will have a real effect.

"Those are the tax credits that will help reduce the cost of insurance and help people become covered. So that is definitely going to be an economic impact for individuals and families."

Flores-Brennan says families who don't get insurance through their employers and will have access to the insurance exchanges are those who will benefit from this provision.

The public is already seeing some of the benefits of health care reform. Flores-Brennan says this year seniors became eligible for a $250 prescription drug rebate to help offset costs not covered by Medicare, and community health centers received funding to expand their low-cost services.

Additionally, she says, small business owners also are getting a break.

"Over 90,000 small businesses in Colorado have received postcards that suggest that they may be eligible for a tax credit for those small businesses to be able to offer insurance to their employees."

That tax credit is 35 percent of the insurance costs this year, and goes up to 50 percent by 2014. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, more than half of people without insurance don't have it because they can't afford it.

The study being published today is by the health care consumer group Families USA, which looked at the full impact of the tax credits.

Their website is familiesusa.org. The CDC report can be found at
www.cdc.gov




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