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The Big Elephant In The Room

by David Kurtz
09.02.14 | 12:08 pm

As I mentioned just below, there’s some movement toward red states adopting Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion. But the holdout states are clustered in the South, where African Americans are most affected by the lack of Medicaid coverage.

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