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Eliot Engel: “I simply cannot understand why a State would choose not to provide health care coverage to its neediest citizens.”

On the recordDecember 12, 2012
I simply cannot understand why a State would choose not to provide health care coverage to its neediest citizens.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel expresses confusion over states refusing Medicaid expansion despite federal support.

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