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    More Coverage...Quality, Accessible…Least Costly...Medicaid Expansion Governor Branstad says that he wants Iowa to be a healthy state.  How can this be when the Governor says he will deny 84,000 low income Iowans to have good, accessible health care, which happens with his emphatic refusal to expand Medicaid in favor of IowaCare?   The new Healthy Iowa Plan, which Branstad announced, would still deny 61,000 Iowans coverage compared to Medicaid expansion,&n...

    Tue, April 2, 2013 (No comments)
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