The states are being persuaded to broaden their programs for providing coverage to the poor. The federal government is reissuing its encouragement to the states – particularly those where officials are skeptical about Medicaid expansion – to broaden that program through the use of federal healthcare reforms money to subsidize private insurance coverage purchase for individuals within the low incomes. This offer being proposed by the federal government was not a model that was originally part of the new law. At the same time, Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human…
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