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Re:A Common Blood Test Can Cost $11 or Almost $1k by EliRivers on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @12:20PM (#19798621)
I am way out of my depth; why would a state refuse that money? What is the cost of accepting it that 19 US states feel is too high? Not demanding this of you specifically; maybe someone, anyone, can answer.
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Re:A Common Blood Test Can Cost $11 or Almost $1k by retiredcoder on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @04:08PM (#19801105)
As the sibling commenter mentioned, it is a political decision to take federal funds, which sometimes goes against the best interest of the electorate (not claiming to be the case here but seems like so when we read such articles).
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Re:A Common Blood Test Can Cost $11 or Almost $1k by marme on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @02:58PM (#19800464)
the argument they made is the money is temporary. After a few years the federal money goes away and the state has to foot the entire bill so they would rather just refuse the program entirely. This is their public reasoning but the reality is more that it is program proposed by Obama so they just want to refuse it on political principle
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