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You are here: Home / Anderson On Health Insurance / Electoral victories and Medicaid

Electoral victories and Medicaid

by David Anderson|  October 31, 20187:00 am| 24 Comments

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

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In seventeen hours, Virginia will start accepting enrollment for their new Medicaid expansion.  Coverage goes live on January 1, 2019.

 

Virginia will start accepting applications for Medicaid this Thursday. It’s a big day for the nearly 400,000 Virginians who will qualify for Medicaid coverage. 1/

— Joan Alker (@JoanAlker1) October 29, 2018

Virginia is expanding Medicaid because of a massive electoral victory of a coalition that highly values Medicaid expansion. Enough Virginia Republicans were willing to cross their party lines to join with unanimous Democratic support to make sure far more Virginians can get affordable healthcare last spring.

Next week Idaho is voting on a referendum as to whether or not the state wants to expand Medicaid:

Wow GOP governor Butch Otter endorses Medicaid expansion in Idaho and appears in an ad for it. https://t.co/4zb3QxGExp

Expansion is on the ballot there next week

— Peter Sullivan (@PeterSullivan4) October 30, 2018

Next week, Maine is voting for a new governor. They have already approved Medicaid expansion but their current governor is doing everything he can to block implementing a clear directive to expand Medicaid.

If you want to see Medicaid expanded, voting for candidates who, when they win, want to expand Medicaid is the best way of doing that.

Remember this on Tuesday.

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  1. 1.

    rikyrah

    October 31, 2018 at 7:04 am

    Congratulations to my fellow citizens of Virginia ???

  2. 2.

    randy khan

    October 31, 2018 at 7:12 am

    Elections matter. Who knew?

    The results in the downballot House of Delegates election were the key. Before the 2017 elections, it was a 67-33 Republican edge. After, it was 51-49 (and could have been 50-50 with a lucky coin toss).

  3. 3.

    oldster

    October 31, 2018 at 7:19 am

    I realize that this blog and its denizens are strictly and scrupulously non-partisan, but still:

    “If you want to see Medicaid expanded, voting for candidates who, when they win, want to expand Medicaid DEMOCRATS is the best way of doing that.”

  4. 4.

    Honus

    October 31, 2018 at 8:54 am

    @rikyrah: didn’t know you were a Virginian, Riky! Come out to Free Union some time (we have those “FU” stickers on our cars)

    I’ve been telling people that Virginia is not purple, it’s s blue state now. Obama carried it handily twice. (In 2008 he was the first democrat to carry Virginia since LBJ in ‘64) and Hillary won here in 2016. A republican hasn’t won a statewide race since 2009. It’s a tribute to the 2010 gerrymandering that the general assembly and has been republican but that changed drastically last November. Transgender woman Danica Roem ousted 27 year house of delegates member “Bathroom bill” Bob Marshall. If we can flip the statehouse, which looks likely, we can undo the 2010 gerrymandering and probably flip our or five congressional seat next time. It’s ridiculous that a state that has a clear majority of democrats had an 11-2 congressional delegation for seven years.

  5. 5.

    EriktheRed

    October 31, 2018 at 8:57 am

    If you want to see Medicaid expanded, voting for candidates who, when they win, want to expand Medicaid is the best way of doing that.

    Remember this on Tuesday.

    Seems to me you’re preaching to the choir here, David.

  6. 6.

    randy khan

    October 31, 2018 at 9:04 am

    @Honus:

    I think we can flip some of those seats this year.

  7. 7.

    Kraux Pas

    October 31, 2018 at 9:10 am

    As a gay man, I feel compelled every time I see it to point out how much I love the name Butch Otter.

  8. 8.

    Seanly

    October 31, 2018 at 9:17 am

    Butch “Is it obvious I wear ill-fitting dentures” Otter and his wife appearing for the ad makes my wife afraid that there must be some poison pill or super-reverse stunt that makes it bad. I tell her to just still vote for it – we’re hoping to get federal money while we can.

  9. 9.

    Honus

    October 31, 2018 at 9:25 am

    @randy khan: I’m hoping we can flip the fifth district. Garrett retired “to spend more time with his family” (alcoholism). Lesli Cockburn has a shot, not unlike tom Perriello who beat Virgil Goode in the 2006 wave.
    I’d really love to flip the seventh and get rid of the odious Dave brat.

  10. 10.

    Elizabelle

    October 31, 2018 at 9:33 am

    @Honus: Working on it, working on it, working on it, re Dave Brat.

    Go Abigail! And healthcare (and education) are our top issues at the doors.

  11. 11.

    Timurid

    October 31, 2018 at 9:58 am

    TICK TOCK.

  12. 12.

    p.a.

    October 31, 2018 at 10:00 am

    Sure wish this could be done without me-too-ist Rethugs, but glad so many people will benefit.

  13. 13.

    Redshift

    October 31, 2018 at 10:05 am

    Yeah! Next year in Virginia we need to get a majority in both houses and eliminate the asinine “work retirement” that had to be included to get a few Republicans on board.

  14. 14.

    Redshift

    October 31, 2018 at 10:09 am

    @Honus: Virginia is a blue state but for gerrymandering. We pick up one seat in each house next year, and Democrats have the trifecta for the next redistricting. I just hope we can keep enough of this wave going.

  15. 15.

    Barbara

    October 31, 2018 at 10:18 am

    @Seanly: Idaho has more people covered through the federal exchange than any other non-Medicaid expansion state except Texas and Florida. The percentage of the population that has unmet health needs who would be eligible for Medicaid expansion is high. It’s a travesty that it has not expanded before now. There was a good but infuriating article on this subject nearly two years ago in the Washington Post. Suggested solutions from the cracker jack members of Idaho’s legislative body included praying, getting non-profits to give more charity and, my personal favorite, for people to just get the kind of jobs that offer insurance. Wow, I wonder why more people in Idaho hadn’t thought of that before!

    And for Virginia — I think most of us were caught off guard by how deep the blue wave penetrated into local elections. Bob Marshall hadn’t even had an opponent in some prior cycles. But the truth is, the outer suburbs of Northern Virginia are where demographics have been changing the fastest and many voters just hadn’t focused on how retrograde he really was. I would give a lot for this Tuesday to be similar to Election Day last year.

  16. 16.

    L85NJGT

    October 31, 2018 at 10:28 am

    @randy khan:

    2018: The most Democratic Party state lege candidates since 1982.

  17. 17.

    Mai Naem mobile

    October 31, 2018 at 10:43 am

    @Kraux Pas: Butch Beaver would have covered more bases.

  18. 18.

    burnspbesq

    October 31, 2018 at 10:51 am

    @Kraux Pas:

    Shame he doesn’t love you back.

  19. 19.

    Chyron HR

    October 31, 2018 at 10:57 am

    If only the Democratic Socialists of America had managed to stop Ralph Northam last November, the people of Virginia wouldn’t be subjected to this unconscionable expansion of the neoliberal status quo.

  20. 20.

    L85NJGT

    October 31, 2018 at 11:04 am

    @Chyron HR:

    Whatever happens on Tuesday, it will clearly be the fault of Obama, Hillary and the DNC.

  21. 21.

    Kraux Pas

    October 31, 2018 at 11:22 am

    @burnspbesq: Oh, it’s only the name I find appealing. He’s a Republican. Ew.

  22. 22.

    FlipYrWhig

    October 31, 2018 at 11:36 am

    @Chyron HR: I was briefly a member of a Facebook group about Virginia politics but decided I had to quit it because of the numbers of people who were still upset with Northam’s various perfidious neoliberal deeds, like saying a thing about a group that did a thing that related in some way to fracking or whatever the fuck it was.

  23. 23.

    Bostonian

    October 31, 2018 at 7:20 pm

    Dafuq, there is seriously a guy named Butch Otter and he is Governor of Idaho? Dat some cartoon name. Did he replace Suave Grizzly?

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