USA Today Article RatingMedicaid expansion is a compassion test many 2024 Republican presidential hopefuls fail
Feb 20, 2023 View Original Article
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85% ReliableGood
- Policy Leaning
-24% Somewhat Liberal
- Politician Portrayal
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| "Haley left to become ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump administration in 2017." | Positive | 28% Conservative |
| "Trump did all he could to shrink access to insurance under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, from cutting funds for publicity and navigation to shortening enrollment periods to allowing premiums, work, compliance reporting and other administrative obstacles known to reduce Medicaid enrollment among eligible people." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Sununu and Hutchinson got lucky." | Positive | 34% Conservative |
| "Haley left to become ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump administration in 2017." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Haley left to become ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump administration in 2017." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is Trump's chief rival so far." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is Trump's chief rival so far." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "The North Carolinians didn't expand Medicaid last year but they're tackling it again now, perhaps remembering Kasich's encouragement." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "As governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley was a firebrand when it came to health care for her low-income constituents." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, himself a past GOP presidential hopeful, got it right years ago in his state and last year on a mission to convert North Carolina Republicans to the cause." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Two others testing the 2024 waters, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, inherited expanded Medicaid plans from Democratic predecessors and decided to add work requirements." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Two others testing the 2024 waters, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, inherited expanded Medicaid plans from Democratic predecessors and decided to add work requirements." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "That includes naked political hostility toward a Barack Obama achievement and bewildering indifference to fellow humans, especially if caring about them might cost money." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Virginia Gov. Gle Youngkin and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan also inherited Medicaid expansions from Democrats." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who sparked 2024 talk with three Washington speeches in three days last week, was a Medicaid expansion rejector until voters forced her hand last fall." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "They include able-bodied, single males, to Noem's displeasure, but they're probably working and either way, why shouldn't they have health insurance?" | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Hogan likewise accepted that significant changes were unlikely given Maryland's Democratic legislature." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Former Vice President Mike Pence pushed Medicare expansion in a more conservative direction than any other governor, as Politico put it, when he led Indiana." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Republican Nikki Haley has kicked off her 2024 presidential campaign." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "She's highlighting her biography while trying to sidestep the looming presence of her onetime boss, former President Donald Trump." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Haley and former President Donald Trump are so far the only two official candidates for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, but they are far from the only GOP prospects who fail a threshold test for empathy and moral leadership: maximizing health insurance coverage for low-income people." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Haley and former President Donald Trump are so far the only two official candidates for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, but they are far from the only GOP prospects who fail a threshold test for empathy and moral leadership: maximizing health insurance coverage for low-income people." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The Urban Institute published a revealing study of New Hampshire's problems trying to coect with this target group at a time Trump was not making outreach easy." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "So how did Haley's state end up?" | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "That year, as Trump began his offensive to totally kill or at least maim the whole law, the South Carolina uninsured rate rose to 15.2" | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Their glitchy programs are a non-issue thanks to courts suspending work requirements, a Supreme Court that did not take up challenges and President Joe Biden's revocation of Trump's waivers allowing work requirements." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Their glitchy programs are a non-issue thanks to courts suspending work requirements, a Supreme Court that did not take up challenges and President Joe Biden's revocation of Trump's waivers allowing work requirements." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
64% : Haley left to become ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump administration in 2017.54% : Trump did all he could to shrink access to insurance under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, from cutting funds for publicity and navigation to shortening enrollment periods to allowing premiums, work, compliance reporting and other administrative obstacles known to reduce Medicaid enrollment among eligible people.
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