Virginia Just Voted to Expand Medicaid. These States Could Be Next.

Governing: After years of rejecting Democratic governors' pleas to expand Medicaid, the Republican-controlled Virginia Senate voted on Wednesday to join the more than 30 other states that have.

Republicans have historically opposed making more low-income people eligible for the government health insurance program. Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Obama's signature legislation, the federal government pays at least percent of the costs for any state that expands. But Republican-led states have been slow to expand Medicaid, and nearly 20 of them still have not.

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