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After the much-publicized failure of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's health care reform bill, many nationwide op-ed pieces suggested that state level medical coverage mandates simply can't work. However, if this is indeed the case, no one told Colorado, whose Blue Ribbon Commission for Healthcare Reform recently released its final recommendations for Colorado health insurance, including a requirement that all state residents obtain health coverage.

As it's reported at the Kaiser Daily Report, among many other things the commission also recommended is the state "increase funding for Medicaid and children's health care."

In order to offer affordable Colorado health insurance to the more than 800,000 uninsured in the state, other recommendations included creating subsidies for low-income workers to purchase private insurance, streamlining health care-related administrative functions to bring down costs, and encouraging wellness programs and insurance rewards for maintaining healthy behaviors and undergoing preventive care.

However, the one thing left out of the report was a means of funding such a far-reaching plan. And, as Californians discovered just last month, footing the bill can be a deal breaker. Hopefully Colorado health insurance will find the funding that California couldn't get, but until then state residents need to keep searching for an affordable plan that they can rely on when it matters most.