Both the House and the Senate bills require that states cover a larger percentage of their people under Medicaid –The idea is to force all the states to raise their taxes to cover a big part of the health care bill for treating poor people. Since the Feds cannot simply charge any increase in spending to their already overdrawn accounts, so the states have to balance their budgets, the increased state spending for Medicaid will cause sharp increases in state taxes. So the Governors will get the blame, and not Obama or the Congress.
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