Gov. Rick Scott of Florida, a leading Republican critic of President Obama’s health care law, said he now supported a three-year expansion of Medicaid to cover more poor people.
Florida Reverses, Taking Health Law’s Medicaid Expansion
By MICHAEL COOPER, New York Times
Wed, 02/20/2013 - 4:21pm
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