“Now [with the Supreme Court decision], conservative governors who said they wanted no part of a Medicaid expansion shoved down their throats from Washington have the ability to opt out without a penalty. That puts those conservative governors and their legislatures on one big hot seat. Whether or not their state gets a Medicaid expansion is now entirely up to them. It’s put up or shut up time for conservative governors and state legislators who said the ACA was an onerous expansion of federal powers over their states.”
— Robert Laszewski, president of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, LLC, told AIS’s Health Reform Week.
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