A house committee has added its endorsement to an expansion of Medicaid, as long as it‘s on Indiana‘s terms. But it‘ll take negotiations with the Senate to finalize the bill. House and Senate Republicans have backed Governor Pence in tying Medicaid expansion under the federal health care law to receiving government permission to do it under the state‘s Healthy Indiana Plan. The House Public Health Committee tacked on an escape hatch, declaring the state can terminate any expansion if the government breaks its funding promises.
