South Dakota is poised to expand Medicaid to more than 40,000 people in November. If voters approve, South Dakota would be the seventh Republican-controlled state in 5 years to expand Medicaid at the ballot box — and likely the last for awhile.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has said she would accept Medicaid expansion if voters approve the measure, even while she remains opposed. | James Nord/AP PhotoSouth Dakota is poised to expand its state Medicaid program to more than 40,000 people in November, the culmination of a years-long strategy from progressives to broaden Obamacare’s reach in deeply red states.
There are 11 other states that have not expanded Medicaid, but only three — Florida, Mississippi and Wyoming — allow voters to collect signatures for a ballot measure, and none appear likely to take up the effort in the near term. In Florida, a Medicaid expansion ballot measure remains a possibility, though the state’s 60 percent voter approval threshold makes the prospect of doing so challenging, as does the cost of running a campaign in the nation’s third-most populous state. In Mississippi, the state Supreme Court in 2021 quashed a nascent expansion effort when it effectively declared the. And in Wyoming, expansion advocates are pressing to pass the policy legislatively, rather than at the ballot box.
Maine voted to expand Medicaid in 2017; Idaho, Nebraska and Utah did so in 2018; and Missouri and Oklahoma followed suit in 2020. Of those, Oklahoma’s measure passed by the narrowest margin — 50.5 percent support — while Idaho’s passed in 2018 with an overwhelming 60.6 percent of votes.
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