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Walker, Pence Show Routes to Conservative Entitlement Reform

By Ashton Ellis
Wednesday, February 27 2013

With the implementation of ObamaCare in full swing, several Republican governors have reversed themselves, claiming that political reality is forcing them to play by the health law’s budget-busting rules. But two of their colleagues – Wisconsin’s Scott Walker and Indiana’s Mike Pence – are blazing an alternative path that signals the key to conservative entitlement reform. Since January, GOP governors in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Florida and, as of this week New Jersey, have said they will expand their state’s Medicaid eligibility…

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