When Kansas’ legislature made a last-ditch effort to expand Medicaid under Obamacare, Gov. Sam Brownback vetoed it. Today, the state House barely sustained his veto, obviating or at least shortening one chapter in the ongoing saga over Obamacare repeal.
The vote was 81 to 44 to override, just a few votes short of the two-thirds needed for passage.
Kansas wasn’t the only state rushing to take advantage of what some viewed as an incentive, within Republicans’ Obamacare repeal bill, to expand Medicaid belatedly as Congress was considering Obamacare repeal. As the Washington Examiner reported earlier this morning, Georgia, Virginia, and Maine (via referendum) are all considering the change, which would open up the Medicaid program to all childless, able-bodied working-age adults with sufficiently low incomes.
