DES MOINES – The Iowa Senate approved Medicaid expansion Monday, by a vote of 26-23.
“First step to doing right by uninsured, working Iowans!” Democrats tweeted soon after the vote. The vote on Senate File 269 was along party lines in the Democratically-controlled Senate.
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad opposes the measure, which would next head to the Republican-controlled House.
Sen. President Pam Jochum said after the vote that “I have no doubt that expanding Medicaid is not only financially smart, is the morally right thing to do.”
Watch Jochum’s closing remarks on affordable health care:
Another move to give benefits to people who don’t want to earn them. It’s always easier to get a hand out then it is to get a job and pay for what you need.
I agree, LVS, but it’ll never pass the House. Sad.
This is one time I must side with the Democrats. Branstad’s idea will not do what is needed and provide insurance to low income people. He wants to make them pay for the premium and do a co-pay. What part of low income is so hard to understand. They need all of their money just to survive in a lot of cases. I am not talking about the welfare abusers here but about the people who really need the help.