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Maine Senate pushes Medicaid expansion bill, House vote next
House Speaker Rep. Mark Eves, D-North Berwick, will address the evening session to push expanding public health insurance program for low income residents.
Senate advances Maine Medicaid expansion bill, House vote pending
House Speaker Rep. Mark Eves, D-North Berwick, will address the evening session to push expanding public health insurance program for low-income residents.
Texas Medicaid Debate Complicated By Politics And Poverty
In Texas, it may be politically unwise to cross the governor, but some politicians and advocates in the poor Rio Grande Valley are starting to speak out in support of expanding Medicaid. Governor Perry opposes all parts of Obamacare.
Texas Legislature briefs: Medicaid expansion would need legislative OK
The Legislature would have to approve any enlargement of Medicaid under a provision approved by the House late Monday. Medicaid expansion “is too big a decision for the future of this state to be made by one person,” said Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano.
Branstad: State might expand Medicaid if 'assurances' came attached
MEDICAID IN IOWA: On Monday, Branstad seemed to indicate he might be amenable to accepting some form of expansion if it came with assurances that the feds wouldn't renege on funding commitments in the years to come.
Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities
In states where Republican leaders are rejecting expansion of the government health plan for the poor, residents already have lower rates of coverage. Republican opposition in many statehouses to expanding Medicaid next year under President Obama's healthcare law — opposition that could leave millions of the nation's poorest residents without insurance coverage — will likely widen the divide ...
Jones: Quest for Medicaid expansion doesn't let up
ATLANTA - Groups supporting Georgia's expansion of Medicaid didn't fold their tents and wander off into the night when the General Assembly adjourned.
Expanding Medicaid will help N.H.'s uninsured
Expanding Medicaid in 2014 is still being debated across the nation this year as state legislatures work toward adjournment. While the Affordable Care Act passed by Congress in 2010 — the ACA, or "Obamacare" — required expansion of Medicaid,...
Dems work on Miss. Medicaid expansion proposal
Democrats in the Mississippi Legislature say they're working on proposals to keep Medicaid alive and funded in the budget year that starts July 1. They say they're doing this in case Republican Gov. Phil ...
Colorado Medicaid expansion signed into law
An expansion of Medicaid eligibility that's expected to add 160,000 adults to public health care assistance in Colorado was signed into law Monday. The expansion is part of the federal health care overhaul ...