Another Medicaid expansion bill introduced in Nebraska Legislature and, again, plenty of opposition
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Posted: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 2:00 pm | Updated: 2:19 pm, Tue Jan 19, 2016.
By Martha Stoddard / World-Herald Bureau
LINCOLN State lawmakers lined up Tuesday for another battle over extending publicly funded health coverage to more low-income Nebraskans.
On one side, State Sen. John McCollister of Omaha and 15 co-sponsors introduced a bill that would use Medicaid funds to buy private insurance for some 77,000 low-income people.
Legislative Bill 1032 is based on the Medicaid expansion program offered in Arkansas since 2014.
This is a common-sense, bipartisan, third-way approach to solving a problem, Sen. Heath Mello of Omaha said of the proposal.
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