"10 States Still Refuse to Expand Medicaid Coverage"

North Carolina lawmakers have reached a deal to expand Medicaid, leaving 10 states that have not accepted the expansion, all of which either have a legislature controlled by Republicans or have a Republican as governor. The Medicaid expansion handed down in former President Obama’s landmark Affordable Care Act law has long been subject to partisan debate. Republican lawmakers at the state level have stuck closely to the argument that the Medicaid expansion is an overstep of the federal government, criticizing the amount of spending the government is doing rather than letting private insurers navigate the market themselves.