WASHINGTON – Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell suggested Wednesday it was only a matter of time before every state’s governor agrees to expand Medicaid – including Gov. Nikki Haley.“My hypothesis about this is, it’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when,” Burwell told a group of Washington, D.C., correspondents for regional newspapers during a briefing at HHS headquarters.Burwell said the advantages of Medicaid expansion will become clear as time goes by. In states that have expanded access, she said, health insurance premiums have decreased on average by seven percent.
Governors will continue having conversations with each other, Burwell stressed, and those holdouts will start to get pressure from Republicans in their state legislatures, too.But until then, Burwell didn’t have a real answer for what the federal government could do – or should do – to close the …
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For Medicaid expansion in SC, HHS secretary says it's only a matter of time – Charleston Post Courier