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Should Nevada Expand Medicaid?

The Affordable Care Act mandated that states accepting federal money had to expand their Medicaid programs to include all uninsured people with incomes below 133 percent of the poverty level. That's a little less than $15,000. But the Supreme Court ruled last summer that states cannot be compelled to expand Medicaid coverage. The choice is up to the states themselves. So what should Nevada do?

 

GUESTS

 

Dr. Frank Nemec, Past President, Nevada State Medical Association

January Angeles, Senior Policy Analyst, The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Geoffrey Lawrence, Deputy Director of Policy, Nevada Policy Research Institute

 

 

 

 

 

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