“By siding with Medicaid over the exchanges, Jan Brewer is attempting to shoehorn her constituents into a lower-quality and less efficient program, force state and federal taxpayers to pay more, and financially destabilize Arizona hospitals and doctors. It takes a special kind of policy proposal to achieve that trifecta. Fortunately, it’s the Arizona state legislature that will have the last word.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2013/01/19/how-jan-brewer-walked-arizona-into-obamacares-medicaid-expansion-trap/