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Local News - Local News - December 20, 2012
Bringing tax dollars to Spokane

Tim Foster
Guest Commentary

Consider this: $120 million in savings, thousands of jobs, and affordable health insurance for an additional 350,000 Washingtonians.
According to a recent report by the Urban Institute, those are just a few benefits of implementing Medicaid expansion (an optional component of President Obama's health care reform law) in Washington state.
Those are big benefits, especially in a struggling economy, and our state can't afford to ignore them. Washington is still recovering from the rece...


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