Philip Klein: Medicaid-expanding GOP governors have egg on their faces

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A major new study finding that expanding Medicaid does not improve the physical health of the program’s beneficiaries is embarrassing for Republican governors who backed Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid.

To recap, last year’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court gave states the option of not participating in a vast expansion of Medicaid that could cost the federal government around $1 trillion over the next decade if all states participate.

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