McAuliffe

McAuliffe

McAuliffe



Posted: Friday, May 20, 2016 3:42 pm

McAuliffe budget veto could open door for Medicaid expansion

By MICHAEL MARTZ
Richmond Times-Dispatch

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Gov. Terry McAuliffe is seeking to reopen the door to expanding Virginia’s Medicaid program by vetoing a provision of the state budget that he said unconstitutionally ties all spending in the $105 billion document to a bar against accepting federal funding to expand health coverage of uninsured Virginians.

The line-item veto announced by McAuliffe on Friday would eliminate the so-called Stanley amendment, sponsored two years ago by Sen. William M. Stanley Jr., R-Franklin County, to prevent the governor from appropriating billions of dollars in federal funding under the Affordable Care Act without General Assembly approval to expand health coverage.

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