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As more Republicans give in to President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul, an opposition block remains across the South, including from governors who lead some of the nation's poorest and unhealthiest states.
Widening Medicaid insurance rolls, a joint federal-state program for low-income Americans, is an anchor of the law Obama signed in 2010. But states get to decide whether to take the deal, and from Virginia to Texas - a region encompassing the old Confederacy and Civil War border states - Florida's Rick Scott is the only Republican governor to endorse expansion, and he faces opposition from his GOP colleagues in the legislature. Tennessee's Bill Haslam, the Deep South's last governor to take a side, added his name to the opposition on Wednesday.