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Michigan expands Medicaid despite tea party obstructers

August 28, 2013 By John Rummel

Add Michigan, barely, to the list of states implementing a key part of Obamacare, the expansion of Medicaid, known locally as the "Healthy Michigan" plan.

Counseling center shutdown teaches important health care lessons

August 13, 2013 By Lily Connor

A right-wing governor has used an unreliable study and nonexistent federal requirements to replace local, community-based, nonprofit health care providers with out-of-state for-profit companies.

North Carolina crowd roars at governor: “Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!!”

July 2, 2013 By Tim Wheeler

Nearly 5,000 protesters at a "Moral Monday" rally roared disapproval of North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory's decision to terminate federal jobless benefits.

Texans rally to expand Medicaid

May 13, 2013 By A.J. Hoffman

"Governor Perry - listen up, Medicaid matters, no more cuts!" echoed through the streets here at a recent demonstration.

Governor calls unions the voice of American workers

March 26, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky

"We live in a time in which more and more capital is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands," Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon told union delegates at the AFL-CIO Labor Legislative Conference.