Medicaid provision for Nebraska raises ire
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 17th, 2010 5:41 am by HL
Medicaid provision for Nebraska raises ire
It was a single paragraph, added at the last minute on Page 2,129 of the Senate’s mammoth health-care bill: a promise that the federal government would pay forever for extra poor people to join Medicaid in Nebraska. And it triggered a swift, partisan backlash.
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