Gridlock over: Virginia lawmakers approve Medicaid expansion
The state
Ironically, Republican lawmakers said it was the Trump administration's embrace of work requirements for low-income people on Medicaid that help get the measured passed after years of partisan battle.
Expanding Medicaid was a key provision of then-President
But
And a failure by the
"There's always talk of repealing Obamacare, that did not happen," Cox said.
Democratic Gov.
Wednesday's voting marked the end of a more than four-year battle over whether
Those arguments were again replayed in the final hours before
Sen.
"I came to the conclusion that no just wasn't the answer anymore," Chafin said.
But several Republican senators remained strongly opposed, saying Medicaid costs would eventually overwhelm the rest of the state's budget needs for schools and public safety.
"It is a ticking time bomb," said GOP Sen.
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