[NotSammyHagar]

Is there any reason not to expand medicaid? I mean there's some bizarre claim that you have more freedom somehow if you don't have to have health insurance, but that's just idiocy. Everyone on each will die, and almost everyone will have a sickness or injury in their life.

[toomuchtodo]

The federal government only subsidizes the expansion for so many years, although in all states where it wasn't expanded, it appears to be based on non-economic reasons. Expanding Medicaid in all 50 states would've avoided an estimated 15k deaths [1]. It would've also drastically improved health outcomes [2].

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/23/20703776/m...

[2] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/24/17779338/v...

[pedasmith]

IMHO, it's red-state spite.