The Nation's Most Vicious Obamacare Fight Just Took A Wild Turn

Last year, the widening partisan split over the Affordable Care Act produced the first federal government shutdown in 17 years. Almost one year later, Virginia's state government is on a collision course that could cause that state's first-ever shutdown.

Like the federal shutdown, the law known as Obamacare is to blame for the bickering in Virginia, which has become a national political bellwether.

Virginia's Democrats, led by freshman Gov. Terry McAuliffe, and Republicans have engaged in an increasingly partisan and nasty fight over the past few months over an expansion of the federal Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act. The dispute has come to a head because Virginia must pass a budget by July 1 to avoid a shutdown.

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