More States To Expand Medicaid Now That Obamacare Remains Law
Source: Forbes
More states will pursue expansion of Medicaid health benefits for poor Americans under the Affordable Care Act after Republicans failed to repeal and replace the law.
The American Health Care Act, also known as Trumpcare, would’ve rolled back the ACA’s Medicaid expansion and put restrictions on states that tried to expand such coverage. But Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Paul Ryan Friday pulled the ACHA legislation Friday, making, “Obamacare the law of the land” as he said.
At least two states – Kansas and North Carolina – are already working toward becoming the 32nd and 33rd states to expand Medicaid under the ACA. They would join 31 states plus the District of Columbia that have taken advantage of generous federal funding available under the law, President Obama’s signature legislative achievement, according to the Advisory Board.
And there may be even more states that will resurrect state legislative efforts to expand Medicaid. Before Trump was elected, Georgia, Idaho, Nebraska and South Dakota were considering Medicaid expansion . But Trump’s election, along with Republican control of Congress prompted these states to put on the breaks for Medicaid expansion when an ACA repeal looked likely. “The effort to expand Medicaid in Georgia just died,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution said Nov. 9, 2016, the day after Trump won the electoral college.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2017/03/26/more-states-to-expand-medicaid-now-that-obamacare-remains-law/#254b7d5419a6
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I can't remember which republican it was who recently said, "Thanks to Obamacare, Americans now think health care is a right."
Fuckin' A we do! 
The more people that get coverage, the harder it will be to try to repeal it again. Not that that will stop the repubs from trying. There was a thread a few days ago about old sayings - you know, like, you attract more flies with honey than vinegar. Well someone posted one I had never heard of & it sums up the repubs perfectly. Live & learn; some people just live. Hopefully in 2018, people will remember it was the republican House that tried to take your health benefits away.
That's a great slogan!
I spend as much time as I can there. I choose to shop there when I can, get my hair cut there, go to the Merc and we do business with Lawrence Memorial Hospital when we need care. It is a wonderful place. I wish it still smelled of patchouli downtown but I can still fondly remember those days. 
need to hammer our state reps and senators hard to approve the Medicaid expansion. Georgia is a prime example -- lots of needless suffering around the state, so these idiots can feel like they're doing their part to drown the Nanny State in the bathtub.
