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Medicaid expansion appears unlikely after Supreme Court ruling (access required)

By Jeremy Duda

Published: July 9, 2012 at 9:15 am

If the feds can’t force Arizona to move forward with the massive Medicaid expansion, it’s a near certainty the Republican-led Legislature won’t do it for them. Though the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the core of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, it ruled that the federal government couldn’t force states to expand health care for the poor by threatening to take away other Medicaid funding.

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