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    Limited Temporary Expansion of Medicaid Part of Stimulus?


    Will this fly?


    As part of a sprawling $825 billion strategy to heal the economy that House Democrats laid out this week, lawmakers and transition officials envision a two-prong approach to help unemployed people retrieve health benefits. One would reshape a basic entitlement program, allowing states temporarily to sign up jobless residents for Medicaid, with the federal government for the first time paying the entire cost. The other proposal would provide unprecedented federal subsidies to help people afford coverage under COBRA, a law that allows some laid-off workers to buy health benefits that they used to get through their jobs. (continues)

    Congress, Obama Toil to Help Jobless Get Health Care
    Washington Post | Saturday, January 17, 2009

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