How Oklahoma Democrats just helped sabotage a GOP plan to roll back Medicaid expansion

GOP infighting has stalled a drive by top Oklahoma Republicans to excise Medicaid expansion from the state Constitution this summer, but they’ve devised a new plan to accomplish their goal in November.

The leaders of the state House and Senate are now backing a proposed referendum that would repeal an amendment expanding Medicaid that voters narrowly passed in 2020. The amendment would be reenacted as a statute, but lawmakers could freely alter or repeal that reconstituted law.

The new amendment would also authorize lawmakers to stop paying for Medicaid expansion if the federal government ceases to cover at least 90% of the costs.

Republicans originally planned to promote the two proposals—one repealing expansion, the other allowing the state to stop paying for it—as separate amendments on separate dates.




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