States Explore Paths To Pay Their Share For Medicaid Expansion — Using Political GPS

(By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News)

Last year, nearly 60 percent of Maine residents voted to expand the state’s Medicaid program — an option provided by the Affordable Care Act that would extend health insurance to tens of thousands of the state’s low-income people.

But the state’s Republican governor, Paul LePage, a longtime opponent of Medicaid expansion, has refused to implement the policy because he doesn’t want to raise taxes to pay the state’s share of the cost. Continue reading article here…

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