Emails: Clinton pollster wanted to fully fund Medicaid expansion

Before Hillary Clinton suggested the federal government keep fully paying for Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, a leading Democratic pollster suggested the policy as a way to create jobs and help people in Republican-led states.

Several months before Clinton launched her presidential race in spring 2015, pollster John Anzalone raised an idea she later proposed: Instead of phasing down the federal match for newly eligible Medicaid recipients, the federal government would keep paying 100 percent of their costs.