How Would Election Results Impact Medicaid Debate?

Modern Healthcare

By: Harris Meyer

Even those Democrats governors that have not yet expanded Medicaid have been criticizing the Republican governors that are running against them, because they are still im refusal of expanding the Medicaid program to more low-SES adults.

But some observers say a bigger factor than gubernatorial races would be a Clinton victory in the presidential race. “If Clinton wins, that will put a lot of questions about the future of the ACA to rest, and many states will re-look at the issue of expansion,” said Joan Alker, a Medicaid policy expert at Georgetown University. A Clinton victory, she added, would embolden more pragmatic GOP leaders who have been interested in expansion all along, such as Senate leaders in Florida and the governors of Georgia and South Dakota.

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