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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublican states voted for Medicaid expansion...
Idaho, Nebraska and Utah.
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Republican states voted for Medicaid expansion... (Original Post)
cynatnite
Nov 2018
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In It to Win It
(8,225 posts)1. Welcome to Liberalism!
Le Gaucher
(1,547 posts)2. They love social medicine.. Who knew?
Wounded Bear
(58,601 posts)5. They love medicine...
they are starting to realize that Big Health and Big Pharma are not interested in actually providing the services they provide at reasonable prices.
If they want medicine, Medicaid expansion is a good way to get it. Big medical corporations aren't going to open new hospitals in Idaho without some incentives.
eleny
(46,166 posts)3. wow and congrats despite being red states
the blue dye has been cast for obamacare! we won the health care issue.
In It to Win It
(8,225 posts)4. Is this a case like Maine?
Whereby the voters voted to expand Medicaid and can be rejected by the governor?
Wounded Bear
(58,601 posts)6. Might be one reason Maine chose a new governor...
Whiskeytide
(4,459 posts)7. It proves republicans don't ...
... understand what Medicare is nor their partys policy positions. It is a testament to how manipulative and fear based the conservative message is.