2 First in the South.

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Louisiana became the first state in the Deep South to accept Medicaid funding under the Affordable Care Act when Governor John Bel Edwards (D) signed an executive order to expand health coverage on his second day in office. The expansion is expected to reach about 300,000 more residents, many of them employed but described as "in the gap"--too poor to buy...