Health reform's many unknowns

ErieTimes-News

As California positions itself at the vanguard of the national health-care overhaul, state officials are unable to say for sure how much their implementation of the federal Affordable Care Act will cost taxpayers. The program, intended to insure millions of Americans who are now without health coverage, takes states into uncharted territory. California, which plans to expand coverage to hundreds of thousands of people when the law takes effect in 2014, faces myriad unknowns. The administration of Gov. Jerry Brown will try to estimate the cost of vastly more health coverage in the budget plan it unveils in January, but experts warn its numbers could be off.

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