I didn't know that about the ACA. Maybe that's why the same states that say they won't expand Medicaid are also refusing to create the Exchanges (forcing the Feds to create Exchanges for them) -- Federal dollars are available to create the Exchanges.
Interesting about TX. I had heard that the TX Hospital Association was up in arms about his position -- and they usually have a lot of political clout. They were expecting their unreimbursed costs to go down dramatically under the ACA. They like the ACA.
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Apparently, any way. Eliot Spitzer had the woman who is administering the State of California's implementation of the ACA on his show a few weeks ago. At one point she said something interesting: Once a state accepts *any* money through the ACA, it cannot legally refuse the Medicaid expansion--or something similar to that effect.That's likely a ball hidden in some deep weeds, but the below does seem to suggest that Texas will be getting the full monty version of the ACA.http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/07/1117597/-Rick-Perry-budgets-with-Medicaid-money-he-said-he-d-rejectR.
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