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House Minority Leader Chad Campbell, (D) Phoenix, argues that House Bill 2153 would discriminate against gays and others on the House Floor in Phoenix on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. House Bill 2153, written by the conservative advocacty group Center for Arizona Policy and the Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom, would allow individuals to use religious beliefs as a defense in a lawsuit filed by another individual. (AP Photo / The Arizona Republic, Michael Schennum)
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House Minority Leader Chad Campbell, (D) Phoenix, argues that House Bill 2153 would discriminate against gays and others on the House Floor in Phoenix on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. House Bill 2153, written by the conservative advocacy group Center for Arizona Policy and the Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom, would allow individuals to use religious beliefs as a defense in a lawsuit filed by another individual. (AP Photo / The Arizona Republic, Michael Schennum)
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House Minority Leader Chad Campbell, (D) Phoenix, argues that House Bill 2153 would discriminate against gays and others on the House Floor in Phoenix on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. House Bill 2153, written by the conservative advocacty group Center for Arizona Policy and the Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom, would allow individuals to use religious beliefs as a defense in a lawsuit filed by another individual. (AP Photo / The Arizona Republic, Michael Schennum) ***MARICOPA COUNTY OUT - NO MAGS- NO SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT***
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FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013 file photo, a man in a wheelchair holding a banner which reads in Greek "State benefit policy harms our health" takes part in an anti-austerity demonstration in central Athens. Researchers have found new evidence that Greece’s financial crisis is taking a toll on the health of its citizens, including rising rates of HIV, tuberculosis, suicides and even infant deaths. Since the economic crisis first hit several years ago, the government’s health spending has been slashed and hundreds of thousands of people have been left without health insurance. As cuts have been made to AIDS prevention programs, rates of HIV and tuberculosis in drug users have spiked. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 file photo, Liana Maili, pediatrician of Medecins du Monde, Doctors of the World, checks the weight of seven-month old Panagiota in the depressed Perama area, on the fringes of Athens' port of Piraeus. Researchers have found new evidence that Greece’s financial crisis is taking a toll on the health of its citizens, including rising rates of HIV, tuberculosis, suicides and even infant deaths. The medical charity Doctors of the World confirmed the Greek financial crisis has had a devastating impact on health. In response, the group has doubled the number of programs it runs in Greece since the crisis began. Though the charity originally started its operations in Greece to mainly treat vulnerable foreign populations like refugees, deputy director Nathalie Simmonot said they are increasingly treating ordinary Greek citizens with no other means of getting health care. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014 file photo, homeless people hold yogurts as they leave a New Year's meal for the homeless organized by the municipality of Athens. Researchers have found new evidence that Greece’s financial crisis is taking a toll on the health of its citizens, including rising rates of HIV, tuberculosis, suicides and even infant deaths. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
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Sen. Jane English, R-North Little Rock, sits at her desk in the Senate chamber at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. The Senate voted to reauthorize funding for the "private option" program that uses federal Medicaid funds to purchase private insurance for low-income residents. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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Rep. Cecil Brown, D-Jackson, promotes an amendment that pushes for expansion of Medicaid to more than 230,000 uninsured working poor residents during floor debate in House Chambers at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Brown's proposal failed. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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House Appropriations Committee chairman Herb Frierson, of Poplarville, left, confers with fellow Republicans Medicaid Committee chairman Bobby Howell of Kilmichael, center, and Public Health and Human Services Committee chairman Toby Baker of Hattiesburg, during Medicaid funding debate in House Chambers at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
