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On the recordJuly 27, 2015
80 percent of the hospitals that have announced recent closures are in States that chose not to expand Medicaid.
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington

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McDermott highlights the correlation between Medicaid expansion refusal and hospital closures.

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