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Free coverage isn’t free: Oregon lawmakers discuss rolling back Medicaid expansion

By David Freddoso
Published May 1, 2017 7:24pm ET
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Free coverage isn’t free: Oregon lawmakers discuss rolling back Medicaid expansion
Amanda Thornton of Aloha, Ore., speaks with primary care doctor John Guerreiro at a clinic run by the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center in Beaverton, Ore. The center comprised of nine clinics in northwestern Oregon, serveing 36,000 patients in Washington and Yamhill has been overwhelmed under the Affordable Health Care Act's Medicaid expansion. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka) | Gosia Wozniacka

Here’s a sentence I did not wake up expecting to read today:

Democratic lawmakers in Oregon are considering ending the state’s Medicaid expansion in an effort to address a $1.6 billion budget shortfall.

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