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GOP’s ‘no’ on Medicaid becomes ‘Let’s make a deal’

Given the choice of whether to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care law, many Republican governors and lawmakers initially responded with an emphatic no. Now they are increasingly hedging their objections.

By David A. Lieb | Updated on March 25, 2013
In this March 19, 2013 photo, Evelyn Craig, left, executive director of reStart Inc., and LaTonya Jenkins, a reStart client who lives at the facility, pose at the homeless shelter in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Given the choice of whether to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama’s health care law, many Republican governors and lawmakers initially responded with an emphatic “no.”

Now they are increasingly hedging their objections.

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