Usually, Republican states prefer that "the undeserving" die, or at least suffer.
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities. The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor." John Kenneth Galbraith
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Ohio will expand Medicaid. "Ohio Gov. John Kasich pushed through an expansion of Medicaid Monday over the objection of fellow Republicans in the state legislature, using federal money to add hundreds of thousands of state residents to the health-care program...Mr. Kasich this year proposed adding an estimated 275,000 residents to the Medicaid rolls under the provision." Mark Peters and Louise Radnofsky in The Wall Street Journal.
Ohio's new Medicaid expansion could cover 330,000 people. "This might not be the end of the story: Some Ohio House Republicans are prepared to sue the Kasich administration for moving forward on the Medicaid expansion after they did not approve the program. But, at least for the moment, Ohio is the 26th state (and fourth controlled by a Repubilcan governor) to sign onto the Obamacare program." Sarah Kliff in The Washington Post
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