The subsequent 12 months, voters in Idaho, Nebraska and Utah — purple states, all — handed poll initiatives increasing Medicaid. Oklahoma, Missouri and South Dakota have since completed so. Montana’s state legislature has additionally accredited an enlargement.
In 2019, Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, a Democrat, narrowly gained election in a Republican state by pledging to guard an earlier Medicaid enlargement. In North Carolina, Roy Cooper, additionally a Democrat,…