Red-state voters look to expand Medicaid this fall, despite Trump's enduring hostility to health law
WASHINGTON - Even as President Donald Trump launches new attacks on the Affordable Care Act, voters in four deep red states are poised this fall to expand access to government Medicaid coverage through the 2010 law.
Nebraska Friday became the fourth state to qualify a Medicaid expansion initiative for the November ballot, giving voters there the chance to do an end-run around the state's Republican political leaders who have fought the health care law for years.
Similar measures have already qualified in Idaho and Utah, where GOP officials for years have resisted Medicaid expansion, and in Montana, where a Medicaid expansion begun in 2016 is slated to sunset next year
