Quote of the Day

“There are a lot of big-picture political considerations [regarding the expansion of Medicare]. If you’re a governor or state legislator, and you spent the last two to four years campaigning as hard as you could against Obamacare, if you then get an opportunity when they say, ‘Here, would you like a big, heaping double dose of it?' it’s very politically difficult to say yes.”

— Matt Salo, executive director of the National Assn. of Medicaid Directors, told AIS’s Health Reform Week.