Last-minute Medicaid expansions complicate Obamacare repeal

By Robert King

Published April 3, 2017 4:01am ET

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Last-minute Medicaid expansions complicate Obamacare repeal — Audience members react as a woman expresses anguish about proposed cuts to Medicaid during a town hall hosted by U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., on March 24 at the Commerce Center Community Room in Paducah, Ky. (Ryan Hermens/The Paducah Sun via AP) | Ryan Hermens

Republicans are worried that more states expanding their Medicaid programs under Obamacare could make future efforts to repeal the law more complicated.

In the wake of the House GOP leadership pulling its Obamacare repeal bill on March 24 and Speaker Paul Ryan declaring that Obamacare is the “law of the land,” swing states and Republican-led states such as Virginia and Georgia are considering expanding Medicaid.

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