Health care law reverberating in battleground states(Credit: CBS News) (CBS News) The Supreme Court's decision Thursday to uphold key provisions of the Affordable Care Act has thrown many state governments in flux, either scrambling to ramp up preparations for increased Medicaid coverage or risking control of their insurance marketplace by banking on a new White House resident this November. Governors Scott Walker, R-Wis., and Bobby Jindal, R-La., for example, have made clear their intentions to pursue the latter, refusing to ready their states for the health care law's provisions that will take full effect in 2014. "Every governor's got two critical decisions to make," Jindal, who frequents vice presidential rumors, said Sunday on Meet the Press. "One is do we set up these exchanges; and, secondly, do we expand Medicaid? And no, in Louisiana, we're not doing either one of those things. "I don't think it makes sense to do those," Jindal continued. "I think it makes more sense to do everything we can to elect [presumptive GOP nominee] Mitt Romney to repeal 'Obamacare.'"A win by Romney - the former Massachusetts governor who penned what Democrats say was the blueprint of President Obama's individual mandate - could hinge on this election's battleground states. On CBS News' Face the Nation on Sunday, Walker - governor of a particularly hot swing state - expressed sentiment similar to Jindal's, promising to "wait" until Republicans have "put in place a new president, a new Senate majority, and then ultimately repeal the law." But a Jan. 1, 2013 deadline that requires states to have their insurance exchanges certified by the federal government poses threat to governors and state legislatures that wait too long to prepare for enormous spikes in Medicaid enrollment; if the deadline isn't met, the federal government will take control of that state's exchanges. From special legislative sessions to ramped-up exchange efforts, local reports from these battleground states suggest political motivations will make them the most obvious barometer of the health care law's reverberations come November.COLORADO - It's "full speed ahead" for health insurance expansion, reads a Denver Post article, which predicts the court's ruling will "speed insurance expansions to nearly all Coloradans, while opponents regroup for future fights, state officials and health experts said. The state will redouble efforts to prepare for 2014's growth in Medicaid enrollment, and a consumer 'exchange' where other individuals should find affordable, uniform benefits, proponents said."Â

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