RICHMOND, VA - OCTOBER 15, 2013: (Back Row, L-R) Virginia Senator Janet Howell (D-32nd District); Virginia Senator Emmett Hanger (R-Mount Solon), chairman of the Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission; Virginia Delegate Steve Landes (R-25th District), Vice Chairman of the commission; Virginia Delegate John O'Bannon III (R-73rd District); Virginia Delegate Jimmie Massie (R-72nd District); Virginia Delegate Johnny S. Joannou (D-79th District); Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Services Bill Hazel; (Front Row, L-R) Betsey Daley, Staff Director of the Virginia Senate Finance Committee; and Michael Jay, Virginia House Appropriations Committee Staff, listen as members of the public testify before a commission hearing on 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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