With Michigan’s Announcement, Another Republican Governor Commits to Expanding the State’s Medicaid Program

A Sixth Republican Governor Decides to Implement the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion

Today, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder announced that he plans to expand the state’s Medicaid program. The following is the statement of Ron Pollack, Executive Director of Families USA, about this development:

“The commitments today and on Monday by governors in Michigan and Ohio to expand their states’ Medicaid programs will provide needed health coverage for well over 1 million uninsured people. It is also indicative of an inevitable movement that will ultimately result in Medicaid expansions in all states across the country.

“As the Republican governors in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Ohio clearly understand, it makes no sense for states to pass up the availability of unprecedented amounts of federal funds to help their residents receive much-needed health care. It would be an act of fiscal malpractice for governors to turn down this money.

“We congratulate the six Republican governors for making the decision to consider the well-being of their residents over the partisan rhetoric that marked the contentious debate about the Affordable Care Act”

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