The bill reauthorizing Medicaid expansion passed the state Senate on Thursday when half of the 14 Republicans joined all 10 Democrats in voting to extend the Obamacare entitlement program for five years. This is why the #Headdesk Twitter hashtag was invented.
One of the Republican selling points was that the bill pays for Medicaid expansion while protecting state taxpayers.
It doesn’t, though. | More at the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy