McAuliffe proposes expanding Medicaid in two-year pilot

[kpete]

Source: Richmond Times Dispatch

McAuliffe said he has assurance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that Virginia can launch a two year pilot to use the federal funds and get out of it with no obligation.

If expansion ends, he says he will take the responsibility.

"It's a risk that I am willing to take for our families from one end of Virginia to the other."
"Everybody else is off the hook," he said.

Read more: http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/state-regional/virginia-politics/mcauliffe-proposes-expanding-medicaid-in-two-year-pilot/article_5e26da70-b2de-11e3-b80e-001a4bcf6878.html

[OKNancy]

1. say what you will about McAuliffe, but that is smart politics.

Two years goes by and I bet they won't want to give up the expansion.

[Beacool]

2. Good for Terry.

I hope that it works out. To think that they almost voted in the Cooch.