Alabama Governor Robert Bentley, who "campaigned as an opponent of expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act," now supports expanding Medicaid block-grant funding to more low-income Alabamans, Media Group's Mike Cason reports: Bentley said "he would support an Alabama-designed plan that required recipients to be working or in a work training program. ... Bentley [also] said with a block grant the state could request proposals from private insurers to provide the expanded coverage."
Bentley also suggested that President Barack Obama's administration might be more receptive to his version of a Medicaid expansion because the U.S. Supreme Court has taken up a case posing an existential threat to Obamacare: can the federal government provide tax credits and subsidies to low-income and moderate-income consumers shopping for insurance on the federally-run insurance exchange, instead of state-run exchanges?
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