'Weighing the Colorado Impact of Cuts Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid'

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"Nearly $100 million a year. Those are the proposed Medicaid cuts to Colorado alone in the current federal debt-reduction discussions.

As Congress and President Obama discuss cuts in Medicaid and other "entitlement" programs such as Social Security and Medicare as part of talks to raise the debt ceiling, some Coloradans are asking them to consider the economic impacts of those cuts.

Adela Flores-Brennan, an attorney with the Colorado Center on Law and Policy (CCLP), says a 5 percent reduction just to Colorado's federal Medicaid funding would cost the state more than 2,500 jobs.

"Federal cuts to Medicaid will merely shift costs to the states that continue to struggle to balance their own budgets. We simply cannot afford to support severe cuts to health care to the most vulnerable while protecting tax cuts for the wealthiest"................READ MORE