Obamacare Is Proving Popular In States That Didn’t Expand Medicaid

When Pedro Peña lost his job as a restaurant cook at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, he applied for Medicaid to replace his job-based insurance. But the Miami resident was repeatedly turned down for public health insurance because Florida is among the dozen states that have not expanded Medicaid to low-income adults. Shirley Dominguez, one of the…