Gop Governors Who Turned Down Medicaid Money Have Hands Out

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican governors who turned down billions in federal dollars from an expansion of Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care law now have their hands out in hopes the GOP Congress comes up with a new formula to provide insurance for low-income Americans. The other GOP governors who agreed to expand state-run services in exchange for federal help — more than a dozen out of the 31 states — are adamant that Congress maintain the financing that has allowed them to add millions of low-income people to the health insurance rolls. Republican governors and lieutenant governors plan to plead their cases with GOP leaders and the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday as the GOP majority has taken the first step to dismantling the law. Nineteen Republican governors were successful in defying the Affordable Care Act's mandate that states open up Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance for low-income Americans, to more people. Determined to win over conservative voters for his presidential bid, he doubted the federal government would keep its word to cover 100 percent of expansion costs in the first three years, and 90 percent over the long term. Instead of taking the extra money, Walker used the existing formula to shore up coverage for Wisconsin's poorest and release less-poor Medicaid recipients into the private insurance market and public program in the Obama law. [...] with Republicans, backed by President-elect Donald Trump, pursuing repeal of the law, Walker and others GOP governors are asking specifically for the Medicaid money, and fewer rules for spending it.

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