GOP Governors Face Tough Dilemma On Medicaid Expansion | Talking Points Memo

Obamacare has put Republican governors in a pickle.

Ambitious GOP governors in blue and swing states — including Chris Christie of New Jersey, John Kasich of Ohio, Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Rick Snyder of Michigan and Rick Scott of Florida — have yet to decide whether to accept the law’s Medicaid expansion. And they’re in a tight squeeze between conservatives demanding they turn it down, on one hand, and the enticing offer of a large sum of federal money on the other.


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