FILE:President Barack Obama (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The Supreme Court upheld most of President Barack Obama's health care law last week, including its requirement that virtually all Americans carry medical insurance. But the court gave states the option of saying no to a Medicaid expansion expected to provide coverage to more than 15 million people, mainly childless adults. Officials in some Republican-led states are already saying they'll opt out.
In a letter to governors Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said low-income residents in those states who would have been eligible for the coverage will not face the individual insurance mandate.
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