What Republicans and RFK Jr. tried to hide from you about Medicaid

B arrasso's Wyoming is one of 10 states that still refuses to accept the expansion of Medicaid that was part of the Affordable Care Act. The state's GOP-controlled government prefers to leave millions of citizens without health insurance rather than allow them to receive it from the federal government. Since the ACA passed in 2010, over 150 rural hospitals have either closed completely or eliminated their inpatient services — most of them in the South, where the refusing states are concentrated. Texas, where Republicans dominate the Legislature and control every statewide office, has seen more rural hospital closures than any other state. 

And even though rural Americans are more likely to rely on Medicaid than those who live elsewhere, Republicans in Washington are contemplating huge Medicaid cuts, partly to pay for more tax cuts for the wealthy…

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/rfk-jr-confirmation-hearing-medicaid-rcna189919