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Tuesday Checkup: 1 million Ohioans will be added to Medicaid rolls

In the coming years, an additional 32 million Americans are going to get health insurance thanks to the healthcare bill that passed last year. Half of those, 16 million, will be added to the medicaid rolls. Health reporter Diane Suchetka has been looking into who qualifies and how, as a country, we're going to pay for these additional people. She spoke with ideastream's Eric Wellman.