Wednesday, July 4, 2012

States' revolt on Medicaid expansion could undermine health law




pioneer press/wapo ^ | 7-3-12 | N.C. Aizenman and Sandhya Somashekhar

A growing number of Republican state leaders are revolting against the major Medicaid expansion called for under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, threatening to undermine one of the law's most fundamental goals: insuring millions of poor Americans.

The Supreme Court opened the door Thursday, June 28, when it announced that although the rest of the law is constitutional, the federal government cannot punish states that refuse to adopt the measure's more generous eligibility rules for Medicaid.

The Republican governors of four states -- Florida, Iowa, Louisiana and South Carolina -- have declared that they want to opt out of the expansion. Leaders of half a dozen other states are considering following suit -- including Texas, home to one of the largest concentrations of uninsured people.

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