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McAuliffe Wants Authority To Expand Medicaid

Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe proposed Monday that lawmakers give him the ability to expand Medicaid eligibility on his own if a state commission doesn’t act by the end of the 2014 legislative session.

McAuliffe said the state can’t afford to wait much longer for the Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission to decide whether the state should expand the publicly funded health insurance program for the poor and disabled to an additional 400,000 Virginians.

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