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Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee today grilled Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm on the plan to accept the federal Medicaid expansion, a proposal Palm said is the center of her agency’s budget. Gov. Tony Evers’ budget calls for expanding to cover people whose income was up to 130 percent of the federal poverty level, which would make the state eligible for a 90 percent reimbursement...