Red state Medicaid expansion holdouts

Greenbeard said:

The embers of Medicaid expansion politics continue to burn in some of the 12 remaining holdout states.

We've got the just-barely-missed-it (soon-to-try-again?) this month:

Failed Medicaid expansion negotiations reveal N.C. hospitals' might

Behind Medicaid's latest failure last month is the state's hospital association.

www.axios.com

A new hey-they-might-do-it this week:

New life for Medicaid expansion in Georgia

Georgia Republicans have historically opposed Medicaid expansion. But the tides may be turning.

www.axios.com

And a they're-probably-going-to-do-it-in-November:

South Dakota Voters to Decide Medicaid Expansion - KFF Health News

Despite state Republican leaders’ rigid opposition to expanding the health program designed for low-income residents, advocates successfully gathered enough signatures to get the measure on the fall ballot.

khn.org

Who will be next?

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bongsaway said:

This is another example of the gop governing...or as I like to say, republicans don't govern, they rule. How does refusing the expansion of medicaid help their 'constituents'? The populace is for it and yet the gop leadership says hell no. Are folks so entrenched in their party they will keep voting for folks unwilling to help them?

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Loulit01 said:

Yes. People consistantly vote against their own best interests. This is news to you?

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ttwtt78640 said:

The vast majority of Texas revenue is from the (very regressive) retail sales tax. Raising that tax (rate) would mean that the very poor would pay more (sales) taxes to provide the expanded Medicaid benefit to those less poor.

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Loulit01 said:

Yes. People consistantly vote against their own best interests. This is news to you?

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Former Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, who had refused to expand Medicaid himself, is now urging his fellow Republicans to pass it for the benefit of rural parts of the state.

• The bipartisan legislative movement on expansion this year has given advocates in Wyoming hope.
• In Texas, the state with the highest percentage of uninsured residents per capita, some Republicans have co-sponsored Medicaid expansion bills. That indicates "cracks" in Republican opposition, Luis Figueroa, legislative and policy director at progressive think tank Every Texan, told Axios Austin’s Nicole Cobler and Asher Price.
• Tennessee’s Republican lieutenant governor suggested possible openness to the policy last year, though there’s been no meaningful legislative movement.

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bongsaway said:

No but it is to them. I've asked a couple of times, why do republicans vote against their own best interests and the usual response is, you don't know what my best interests are. Using your brain would help.

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HikerGuy83 said:

Why don't you take care of what you consider your self interests and leave you arrogant left wing attitude in the place it resides and belongs.

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bongsaway said:

Fine with me, if the republicans want to make life miserable for the people they supposedly represent and keep them in the poor house decade after decade, who am I to say what's best for them?

My self interests are doing just fine, thanks for asking.

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