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Iowans on Medicaid Part 4

Clay Masters
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IPR

There’s a showdown of sorts between Iowa Republican Governor Terry Branstad and the Democratic-controlled Senate over expanding Medicaid. Under federal law all states have to decide whether or not they’ll extend enrollment in the joint state and federal healthcare program for the poor. The legislature’s 110-day session is set to end  Friday, but the dispute over Medicaid is one of the issues that’s likely to keep lawmakers from going home. For the last few months IPR Statehouse Correspondent Clay Masters has been talking to Iowans who receive Medicaid services to get their input on the debate. As we hear in Clay’s final installment of the series we’ve been calling “Iowans on Medicaid.”

Clay Masters is the senior politics reporter for MPR News.
Clay Masters is the senior politics reporter for MPR News.