Medicaid decision next year?
GOP legislators talk of putting off expansion choice
Posted: February 8, 2013 at 12:07 a.m.
House Speaker Davy Carter said Thursday that he isn’t wedded to any deadline on enlarging the rolls of the $5 billion Medicaid program.
Republican lawmakers are talking about delaying a decision on Medicaid expansion until next year as they absorb an avalanche of new information regarding options to full expansion, and a reduction in the expected funding shortfall in the state program.
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I'm thinking if Bledsoe is going to "look to the Governor" in Feb. 2014, it will be someone other than Bebee. Isn't he out of office by then?
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