A South Dakota ballot measure expanding the state’s Medicaid program passed with 56% of the vote earlier this month.
Expanding Medicaid may sound like a smart way to get more people insurance coverage — especially when the federal government is picking up most of the tab, as it will in this case.
But Medicaid has been failing its beneficiaries for decades.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.
Medicaid Expansion Is Never Cheap
Sally C. Pipes
A South Dakota ballot measure expanding the state’s Medicaid program passed with 56% of the vote earlier this month.
Expanding Medicaid may sound like a smart way to get more people insurance coverage — especially when the federal government is picking up most of the tab, as it will in this case.
But Medicaid has been failing its beneficiaries for decades.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.