'There is still ideological opposition among many red state politicians to expanding Medicaid,' noted one expert. 'When voters have been able to weigh in directly like in South Dakota, the results are different.'
"There is still ideological opposition among many red state politicians to expanding Medicaid," noted one expert."When voters have been able to weigh in directly like in South Dakota, the results are different.
With Tuesday's vote, which currently sits at 56% in favor of the amendment and 44% against, South Dakota is set to become the seventh state to expand Medicaid through a ballot measure, keeping the"We're glad that South Dakota voters saw that helping our neighbors get healthcare is the right thing to do."
"We're glad that South Dakota voters saw that helping our neighbors get healthcare is the right thing to do," Dave Kapaska, a retired hospital executive and co-chair of the American Heart Association's volunteer cabinet for Medicaid expansion, said in aApproval of the ballot measure came months after South Dakotans
a GOP-backed constitutional amendment that raised the threshold for passage of most ballot initiatives from a simple majority to 60%, which would have spelled defeat for Medicaid expansion.
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