Panel rejects Medicaid, full House must now revive

Published June 11, 2013 1:16am ET



PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Jan Brewer’s plan to embrace a key part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law will have to be resuscitated by the full Arizona House after a panel dominated by conservative Republicans rejected it outright on Monday.

Between Democrats and a handful of moderate Republicans there appear to be the votes to do just that, and the party-line 7-4 Appropriations Committee vote at the end of nearly two hours of testimony was expected.

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