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Medicaid Expansion: Two Sides, Two Opinions

The Commonwealth’s business leaders held dueling news conferences yesterday to express opposing views on enrolling hundreds of thousands of additional low-income residents in Medicaid. 

The Virginia Chamber of Commerce stressed that it’s against a traditional expansion of Medicaid—but it likes the state Senate’s plan for using private insurance through a new Marketplace Virginia.  The National Federation of Independent Business believes that Medicaid growth will become fiscally unsustainable.