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The approval of a Bridge waiver in January 2011 "rescued" Washington state's Basic Health plan, according to Doug Porter, the state's Medicaid director, and should give the state a preview of Medicaid expansion. "We're now drawing down federal matching funds for a program that was previously all state funded," he says.

Approved bridge waiver gives "preview" of Medicaid expansion