Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Will Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion Continue?

Does Medicaid expansion in some states lead to Medicaid expansion in all states?

January 23, 2014 at 3:09 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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Is Medicaid expansion a one-way street?

Greg Sargent yesterday asked good questions about the future of the Affordable Care Act: With Medicaid expansion responsible for some 75,000 new signups in West Virginia, will Republican U.S. Senate candidate Shelley Moore Capito campaign against it? With the rollout of Kentucky's state-run exchange expanding health care access through the state (it's far more successful than Healthcare.gov), what will Republican Senator Mitch McConnell say about it during his re-election campaign?