Crookie Awards: States That Have NOT Expanded Medicaid

A big ol' Crookie and a raspberry to the shameful racist resistance to expanding Medicaid.

Not to mention the damage this obstinacy does to rural hospitals and their constituencies.

The map above tells the story. The southeast and Texas (also a confederate state) stand out as bastards.

(Also note that in Wisconsin, adults with incomes up to 100% of the federal poverty level are eligible for Medicaid. So not Medicaid "expansion," but more than the Confederacy.)

Medicaid expansion is tremendously popular with voters, but in the South voters can NOT decide things like Medicaid expansion because Jim Crow is alive and well in Republican-dominated legislatures.

40 states have now adopted Medicaid expansion.

Medicaid expansion ballot initiatives have been successful in all states where they have gone to voters: ID, ME, MO, NE, OK, UT, & now SD.

But, of the 11 remaining non-expansion states, most don't have ballot initiative processes. https://t.co/4I9nBBO8SQ

— Madeline Guth (@Madeline_Guth) November 9, 2022

And even when voters DID vote to expand Medicaid in Missouri, Republican legislators tried to stop it.

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