Obama Urges Support for Medicaid Expansion by States

President Barack Obama visited health care hub Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday to push state governments to expand the Medicaid health program for the poor. The president's health care law envisions a major expansion of the program, but nearly half of all U.S. states, mostly Republican-controlled, have rejected that part of the Affordable Care Act. Obama urged Republican state legislators to "think about the people here in Tennessee who are working hard and struggling and...

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