States and Medicaid Expansion

States pressed to guarantee Medicaid expansion, By Noam N. Levey, December 11, 2012, Los Angeles Times: “The Obama administration stepped up pressure on states Monday to guarantee insurance for all their low-income residents in 2014 under the new healthcare law, warning governors that the federal government would not pick up the total cost of partially expanding coverage. ‘We continue to encourage all states to fully expand their Medicaid programs and take advantage of the generous federal matching funds to cover more of their residents,’ Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote in a letter to governors. But Sebelius indicated that governors who do not open their Medicaid programs to all eligible low-income residents would forfeit some of the federal aid promised by the Affordable Care Act…”