A.M. Vitals: Health Insurers Gear Up for Medicaid Expansion

Medicaid Maneuvers: The health-care overhaul law will expand Medicaid by 16 million people in 2014, and insurers are jockeying now to best position themselves to snap up state contracts, the WSJ reports. At stake is about $38 billion in new Medicaid revenue, according to Citigroup. Texas, Georgia and California are among the states that will soon offer bidding opportunities to companies, the paper says. (Read why one study predicts new Medicaid enrollees will be healthier than current ones.)