Healthcare: Strained relationship? (Virginia Business)
May 2014
No matter what happens in the fight over whether to expand Virginia’s Medicaid program, one thing is certain — a split between many mainstream business interests and the state GOP has grown wider.
“Normally, business interests like chambers of commerce and hospitals can count on pretty cooperative Republicans and legislatures. But that traditional alliance has really broken down,” says Stephen Farnsworth, political science professor at the University of Mary Washington.
