Voters at a recent rally for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney cited not just disagreement, but outright fear of the new health-care law.

I dont think theres going to be enough money, said Karen Albright, a nurse from Parker, on a warm autumn evening waiting in line to hear the candidate. I expect rationing. They will say you are too old.

Armeda Freel, who traveled from Scottsbluff, Neb., to a rally in Lakewood, is on Medicare, the government health-insurance program for people 65 and older. She said she hurried to have surgery on the carpal tunnel problem in her hands this year because she fears it would be denied after the health-care law takes full effect in 2014.

I thought there was a chance they would say, Live with the numbness. Youre not going to die. Freel said.

Charles Patricoff, also in line, looked tanned, strong and younger than his 60 years, yet said he had suffered a major heart attack just three months earlier. He believes he might have been denied treatment under the new law.

They might have looked at me and my age, and said, Youve lived a full life. he said.

Romney and most Republican congressional candidates have promised to overturn the health-care law if they are elected. The law, passed in 2010, was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in June. If left intact, it will go into effect in 2014.

Colorado Public News asked two leading physicians in Colorado on opposite sides of the political fence whether these fears of the federal government interfering with treatment of their patients were justified. The answers were enlightening, and very different.

Dr. William G. Plested, president of the American Medical Association from 2006 to 2007, retired as a thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon in Santa Monica, Calif., to Bayfield. He is a severe critic of the health-care law.

In stark contrast is Dr. John Bender, president-elect of the Colorado Medical Society and a family medicine doctor with Miramont Family Medicine in Fort Collins. He does not see anything in the health law that would cause interference in the daily practice of medicine.

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Doctors disagree on health-care laws effects