Election Results 2014: The Effect on Medicaid Expansion
NOV. 4, 2014 - New York Times
Josh Barro and Margot Sanger-Katz
The re-election of four Republican governors means that the future of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act is unlikely to change course.
Republicans in Florida, Wisconsin, Maine and Kansas won their bids for re-election. Three of them ・Scott Walker in Wisconsin, Sam Brownback in Kansas and Mr. LePage in Maine・oppose expansion of the program. Rick Scott, the Republican governor of Florida, has endorsed the expansion, which would extend coverage to an estimated 848,000 people, but has never advocated for it forcefully, and he is not expected to now.