Colorado's (HCR) high-risk health insurance pool running twice national average. [View all]

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High-risk, uninsurable patients were the heart of emotional pleas for national health-care reform in 2010, and Colorado got $90 million of a $5 billion federal pool to help them.

The allocation was meant to last until 2014, when insurers have to cover everyone regardless of condition.

But extremely high costs from the "sickest of the sick" forced Colorado to spend $22,500 per patient in the first year of the program, U.S. records show. The state has paid out $21.7 million in claims for 964 members of the pool.

Eight other states have joined Colorado so far in seeking supplements to their original budget, said Steve Larsen, who oversees the high-risk pools for the federal Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, part of HHS.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19750414

I wonder how many of those other eight states seeking additional funding from the federal government are republican-run states that are suing to get "Obamacare" overturned.