Nebraskans approve expanding Medicaid to cover more of the state's low-income residents
Source: Omaha World Herald
Henry J. Cordes
Nebraska’s voters Tuesday did something its governor and state lawmakers declined to do for more than six years: expand Medicaid to cover more low-income Nebraskans.
Initiative 427 rode strong support from Omaha and Lincoln voters to victory on election night, adding Nebraska to the majority of states that have adopted the program that was part of President Barack Obama's 2010 health care law.
"Nebraskans wanted action," said State Sen. Adam Morfeld of Lincoln, who helped organize the Insure the Good Life drive and served as a consultant to it. "They provided action."
Passage of Initiative 427 means an estimated 90,000 Nebraskans — most of them among the ranks of the working poor — will now be insured through the state’s public health insurance program.
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