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Assured, Beebe urges Medicaid expansion

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By Charlie Frago

Posted: September 12, 2012 at 1:35 a.m.

Gov. Mike Beebe said Tuesday that he supports state expansion of Arkansas’ Medicaid program by 250,000 people, substantially swelling the rolls of the $4.8 billion program that already covers more than one-fourth of the state’s population.

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