All the Dem operatives and commentators ensuring that every state will “eventually” (an indeterminate length) opt into the Medicaid expansion makes the case that they will see what a good deal it is for the states and simply have to comply. Greg Sargent looks at some numbers from the Urban Institute showing that states would [...]

Phil Galewitz of Kaiser Health News sketches out a terrifying scenario for Medicaid in states that opt out of the expansion. Not only could they refuse to cover low-income adults up to 133% of the federal poverty line, but they could actually roll back their current Medicaid plans without any consequence. In 2014 the “maintenance [...]