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Medicaid Expansion
June 28, 2021
Natalie Shure
The Success of Medicaid Expansion Could Break It
The program is providing life-saving coverage to nearly a quarter of all Americans, but it’s not sustainable.
May 10, 2021
Natalie Shure
Nothing Exposes the GOP’s Cruelty More Than Its War on Medicaid Expansion
Wherever they hold power, Republicans work in lockstep to deny their constituents life-saving health care.
October 3, 2019
Libby Watson
Health Care Policy Is Always a Human Interest Story
It does your readers no good to keep them at a remove from the partisan politics that built this calamitous system.
August 27, 2018
Sarah Jones
Red-State Voters Take Medicaid Expansion Into Their Own Hands
The midterms will feature four ballot initiatives in Republican territory.
November 13, 2017
Sarah Jones
Inside Maine’s Fight to Expand Medicaid
The state's voters have demanded better health care. Will their governor get in the way again?
June 22, 2017
Clio Chang
Republicans are lying about Medicaid.
November 17, 2015
Brian Beutler
Republicans Versus Reality
The presidential candidates can't stop making sweeping proposals. But congressional Republicans show it's all bluster.
November 4, 2015
Brian Beutler
The Superficiality of the Republican Commitment to Racial Justice
Look no further than the governor's race in Kentucky
May 1, 2015
Brian Beutler
Republicans Say Baltimore Proves Social Welfare Doesn't Work. How Will Hillary Respond?
April 17, 2015
Brian Beutler
Cut Taxes or Expand Medicaid? Florida Governor Rick Scott Is in Quite a Pickle.
January 27, 2015
Danny Vinik
Another Republican Governor Has Accepted the Medicaid Expansion—and He Might Run for President
January 19, 2015
David Ramsey
Red States Are Reinventing Medicaid to Make It More Expensive and Bureaucratic
November 13, 2014
Alec MacGillis
The Astonishing Omission in the Wall Street Journal's Story About Obamacare Enrollment
November 4, 2014
Danny Vinik
The Four Issues You Should Be Focusing on Besides the Senate
October 29, 2014
Alec MacGillis
Think the Midterms Don't Matter? Tell That to 70,000 Poor, Uninsured People in Maine.
October 29, 2014
Brian Beutler
138,000 Poor, Mostly Black Mississippians Are Suffering Because Their Governor Played Politics With Their Health
October 21, 2014
Brian Beutler
Liberals Shouldn't Mock John Kasich's Obamacare Contradiction. They Should Celebrate It.
If only all Republicans were like the Ohio governor
September 4, 2014
Brian Beutler
The War on Obamacare Has Become a War on Minorities and the Poor
July 25, 2014
Brian Beutler
Arkansas Republicans Just Proved Why Obamacare Will Survive Despite This Week's Absurd Court Decision
July 21, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Obamacare's Depressing Red-Blue Divide
Conservative state officials are denying their constituents health care

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