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Christie’s 2016 New Jersey budget to benefit from PPACA

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a second-term Republican who has called President Barack Obamas health-care overhaul a failed federal program, is benefiting from it in his fiscal 2016 budget.

By Terrence Dopp | Updated on March 11, 2015
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Photo: Associated Press

(Bloomberg) — New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a second-term Republican who has called President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul a “failed federal program,” is benefiting from it in his fiscal 2016 budget.

The state will spend $150 million less on charity care for uninsured patients next year, Christie said Tuesday at a town- hall meeting in Somerville. The expansion in Medicaid eligibility under Obamacare has led to a 43 percent drop in the number of uncompensated hospital cases, he said.

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