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You are here: Home / Anderson On Health Insurance / And now for some good news

And now for some good news

by David Anderson|  July 17, 20185:07 pm| 13 Comments

This post is in: Anderson On Health Insurance, Election 2018

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Idaho is putting Medicaid Expansion on the ballot this fall:

 

Congratulations! #medicaid expansion will be on the #idaho ballot in November! Regular Idahoans put in countless hours of work talking to their friends and neighbors to make this happen, gathering so many signatures we blew state req.s out of the water! pic.twitter.com/lRTlpzwbtj

— Idahoans for Healthcare (@ID4Healthcare) July 17, 2018


 

So if you live in Idaho, you know what to do — go vote
And if you live anywhere else in this country, do the same thing — go vote.

Make this country a little bit better in November.

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13Comments

  1. 1.

    Groucho48

    July 17, 2018 at 5:16 pm

    Yay!

  2. 2.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    July 17, 2018 at 5:16 pm

    When it gets on the ballot, has it ever been voted down?

  3. 3.

    MomSense

    July 17, 2018 at 5:18 pm

    Well done, Idaho!

  4. 4.

    Elizabelle

    July 17, 2018 at 5:22 pm

    That is good news. I hope Idaho does the right thing.

  5. 5.

    Mary G

    July 17, 2018 at 5:23 pm

    I’m beginning to get little glimmers of hope that November will be good even in the reddest states.

  6. 6.

    Yarrow

    July 17, 2018 at 5:26 pm

    That is great news!

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Good question.

  7. 7.

    Patricia Kayden

    July 17, 2018 at 5:34 pm

    Thanks Obama!!!

  8. 8.

    John Revolta

    July 17, 2018 at 5:35 pm

    Nebraska got 135,000 signatures on a initiative that only needed 85,000 to put expansion on the ballot in November.
    Of course a couple of state senators are trying to block it but it doesn’t look good for them.

  9. 9.

    KSinMA

    July 17, 2018 at 5:41 pm

    Yay!!!

  10. 10.

    Yutsano

    July 17, 2018 at 5:45 pm

    FRABJOUS!!! I’ll see if some friends down there need some support.

  11. 11.

    Mnemosyne

    July 17, 2018 at 6:37 pm

    I know we had a little blue states vs red states kerfuffle yesterday, but this is the answer for red staters: get out there and see what you can do to start to move things in the right direction. Once you have a ballot initiative or a good candidate, us blue staters can help you out.

  12. 12.

    Mathguy

    July 17, 2018 at 10:58 pm

    It’s suppose to be on the ballot in Nebraska as well, but two jerks filed suit, represented by a guy who was a friend in high school, but turned out to be a racist POS GOP operative. Wish I was still in touch so I could tell him to FOAD.

  13. 13.

    rikyrah

    July 18, 2018 at 1:21 pm

    Yeah

    I missed this news :)

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