Across the South, Republican governors and state legislatures have turned down federal funding to expand Medicaid, excluding millions of uninsured, working-poor residents from health care coverage -- and missing an opportunity to shift costs away from expensive emergency-room care.
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Map showing the status of state action on the Medicaid expansion decision as of July 1, 2013 from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Map showing the status of state action on the Medicaid expansion decision as of July 1, 2013 from the Kaiser Family Foundation.