(sigh) Told you so. It was worth a shot, but their opposition to expanding Medicaid has NOTHING to do with "budgetary concerns". It has EVERYTHING to do with the #ACA being signed by a Black Democrat.
https://twitter.com/sarahkliff/status/1367907930905972736
Personally I think Medicaid funding should be fully federalized anyway to avoid letting red states skimp out on the program, but that's a separate issue. @KFF estimates that if all 12 states take the bribe, they'll receive $10B more than they'd spend:
acasignups.net/21/03/02/amres…
acasignups.net/21/03/02/amres…
The other option Dems have would be to simply eliminate the *lower-bound* #ACA subsidy cliff so everyone in the Medicaid Gap can get fully-subsidized ACA plans instead. The problem with this is that it would guarantee a bunch of expansion states *reversing* themselves.
And since Medicaid is still a better program for most low-income folks than subsidized private ACA plans (even with 100% subsidies), this would still be step backwards, though it would "solve" the Medicaid Gap problem to a certain extent.
Anyway, as @dylanlscott notes in his new piece today, nope, it looks like Republican officials in the 12 remaining states have decided to *continue* being unbelievable dicks about it for no legitimate reason. 
(er...that screenshot is from MY post, not his): acasignups.net/21/03/02/amres…
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