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New Hampshire Governor Urges Medicaid Expansion
Posted 06.05.13
Advocates have placed full page ad in Union Leader
In an attempt to expand Medicaid coverage to an additional 58,000 New Hampshire adults, New Hampshire governor, Maggie Hassan is urging the state senate to reverse their direction. Recently, the state senate rejected the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. It is hoped that the ad in the New Hampshire Union Leader of 100 supporters of the expansion will pressure those opposed to the measure to reverse their decision.
The lead article in the June 5, 2013 NAHU Newswire draws attention to the statistics that 50 million Americans have trouble paying their medical bills and one in 10 insured households had unpaid medical bills the first half of 2012.