Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Republican fissures over the expansion of Medicaid, a critical piece of the 2010 health-care law designed to provide coverage to millions of uninsured Americans, continue to deepen, with battles in Arizona and elsewhere showing just how bitter the divisions have become.Despite expressing distaste for the new law, some GOP governors have endorsed an expansion of Medicaid, and three -- Jan Brewer of Arizona, John Kasich of Ohio and Rick Snyder of Michigan -- are trying to persuade their Republican-controlled legislatures to go along. The governors are unwilling to turn down Washington's offer to spend millions, if not billions, in their states to add people to the state-federal program for the poor. |