Skip to content
RollCall logo

Podcasts

Podcast: Some Red States Coming Around to Obamacare

CQ on Congress, Episode 107

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks during the Senate Democrats' rally against Medicaid cuts in front of the U.S. Capitol on  June 6, 2017. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks during the Senate Democrats' rally against Medicaid cuts in front of the U.S. Capitol on  June 6, 2017. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
By Shawn Zeller and Misty Williams
Posted June 15, 2018 at 12:32pm

Voters in some GOP-leaning states will get a chance to adopt the 2010 health care law’s Medicaid expansion by ballot initiative this November while others may elect governors who support it, says CQ health care reporter Misty Williams. It’s an indication that even some conservative states are coming to accept the Affordable Care Act as the law of the land.

Show Notes:

Fall Elections Key Moment in Medicaid Expansion Debate

 

Subscribe on iTunesListen on StitcherListen on RADiO PUBLiC

 

Recent Stories

Former White House aide Dan Koh, accompanied by his daughter, talks with Lily Holzman, right, and Dorothy Lubas during an Aug. 15 meet-and-greet hosted by the Peabody Democratic City Committee in Peabody, Mass., for candidates running for Massachusetts' 6th District. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

A Massachusetts primary tests Democrats’ appetite to ‘change the culture’

A worker stocks Angus beef top sirloin filets in the meat section of a grocery store in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 25, 2025.

Trump creates beef with ranchers over new import plan

Construction continues on a new helipad on the South Lawn of the White House and the East Wing ballroom on August 20, 2026.

White House ballroom construction can proceed, SCOTUS says

A child is vaccinated during an immunization event at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan Community Resource Center in Los Angeles on Oct. 24, 2025.

HHS seeks input on kids vaccination changes called for by Trump

President Donald Trump looks on before signing a piece of stone at the construction site of a helipad on the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump tries to shrug off opponents’ rush to define him as lame duck

California state Sen. Aisha Wahab speaks to reporters during her election night watch party in Hayward, Calif., on Tuesday. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Progressive Aisha Wahab wins California special election for Swalwell’s seat