Even as their colleagues in Congress voted to kill it, along with other major parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, many Republican state legislators and governors are grudgingly accepting the Medicaid expansion that has played a big role in driving down uninsured rates.
But that doesn't mean that Republicans aren't going to try to do it differently.
A number of GOP-led states have asked the feds for permission to impose different rules on their Medicaid beneficiaries, such as mandating premiums for those with incomes over 100 percent of the federal poverty level.
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