How States Are Funding Obamacare as Federal Money Fades

Governing: In his last few months in office, Maine Gov. Paul LePage is taking his yearslong battle against Medicaid expansion -- a central provision of President Obama's signature health care law -- to the state Supreme Court.

LePage refuses to grant lawmakers' and voters' wishes to make 70,000 more people (adults with incomes at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level) eligible for Medicaid, the nation's government-run health insurance program. After he vetoed five expansion bills in five years, Medicaid advocates took the issue to voters, who sided with their state legislators.

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