By Mike Sunnucks
Phoenix Business Journal
There’s a governor of a U.S. state that has supported big tax increase to close a budget gap; favors new national educational standards and backed a Medicaid expansion to take advantage of big federal matching funds. That governor’s state is looking at paying for the Medicaid expansion via new taxes on hospitals.
That governor is not California’s Jerry Brown, New York’s Andrew Cuomo or from a state back East such as Maryland or Massachusetts.
It is Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer.
