BREAKING: Virginia Senate Votes To Expand Medicaid, Setting Up Final Passage
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Alice Ollstein | May 30, 2018 11:52 am
After years of political battles and weeks of procedural delays, the Virginia State Senate voted 23 to 17 Wednesday afternoon to expand Medicaid to cover between 300,000 and 400,000 more low-income residents.
Four Republicans joined every Senate Democrat in voting for the expansion. Last-minute lobbying against expansion by Trump administration officials, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and the Koch brothers’ group Americans for Prosperity was not successful.
When the bill is signed into law, as expected later this week, Virginia will join 33 states and the District of Columbia in expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act — though Maine is currently fighting the expansion’s implementation.
Virginia State Sen. Emmett Hanger Jr. (R), the sponsor of the Medicaid expansion amendment whose support got the measure over the finish line, appealed to his colleagues Wednesday in a drawn-out, heated floor debate to vote yes.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/breaking-virginia-senate-votes-to-expand-medicaid-setting-up-final-passage
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Then Gov. Northam can send back parts that need to be fixed (as I understand it) and he ain't sending THIS back.
great news!!
I know what it took to do it here in PA and basically it wouldn't happen until after Wolf (D) got elected in 2014 and immediately moved to a full expansion vs the convoluted Corbett "alternative".
