Last-minute Medicaid expansions complicate Obamacare repeal

Published April 3, 2017 4:01am ET



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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