RICHMOND, VA - OCTOBER 15, 2013: Virginia Senator Emmett Hanger (R-Mount Solon), center, who also chairs the Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission, speaks with Bill Hazel,right, Virginia's Secretary of Health and Human Services, prior to a public hearing on the whether to expand the Medicaid program in the Commonwealth. On Tuesday, a 10-member panel of lawmakers charged with settling the question of Medicaid expansion in Virginia holds its first -- and likely only -- public hearing in Richmond, the state capital. Hundreds of Americans For Prosperity members, who have been conducting door-to-door campaigns targeting vulnerable Republicans on the panel, are expected to attend. So are hospital officials, who back expanding Medicaid. We look at Virginia as a window into the national debate over Medicaid -- a debate that could help determine the success or failure of Obamacare.
CREDIT: Khue Bui for the New York Times
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