Newspapers report on the controversy about variations in individual state costs for a Medicaid expansion in health care overhaul legislation. "Gov. Phil Bredesen [D-Tenn.] said today that he is 'very distraught and concerned' about the direction health care reform is moving at the federal level and 'moderately outraged' at the inconsistent treatment states could receive," the Nashville Business Journal reports. Bredesen "estimated a mandated expansion of Medicaid could cost the state as much as $1... 

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