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Senate health bill spurs states to protest

Those with expanded Medicaid programs would face higher cost under proposal

Posted: December 28, 2009 at 4:28 a.m.

States that have already broadly expanded health-care coverage are pushing back against the Senate overhaul bill, arguing that it unfairly penalizes them in favor of states that have done little or nothing to extend benefits to the uninsured.

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