BREAKING: Oklahoma passed Medicaid expansion

[SoonerPride]

Barely.
But with 100% of the precincts in, State Question 802 passed by a little over 6,000 votes.

Finally.

[fishwax]

1. Fantastic! Always good to see the good guys win one in Oklahoma

[sheshe2]

2. Hello Oklahoma!

Close doesn’t matter you did it!

[BigmanPigman]

3. Wow, that was close!

[cstanleytech]

4. Still its scary to think 49.52% of their population are pro causing pain and suffering.

After all expanding medicaid helps ease alot of pain and suffering people endure without having access to affordable healthcare.

[peggysue2]

5. Finally!

Voters in a Red State vote in their own self-interest instead of some stupid propagandized ideology.

Evolution, anyone???

[Cha]

6. Wow!

[DallasNE]

7. Don't Get Your Hopes Too High

Here in Nebraska we voted a few years ago for Medicaid expansion and where are we today? The legislature immediately pass a bill to rescind the vote of the people to revert back to no Medicaid expansion and our Republican Governor signed it into law. Two years later he was re-elected by a wide margin. Expect the same thing to happen in Oklahoma, sorry to say.

[LeftInTX]

9. It seems like this shit always happens...

[OnDoutside]

10. This vote adds it to the State Constitution, did the Nebraska one do the same ?

[SoonerPride]

12. This was a constitutional amendment.

I think the people who created the initiative petition learned from what happened in Nebraska.

[DallasNE]

13. I Think You Are On To Something Here

There were like 3-4 red states that all passed Medicaid expansion a few years ago and I presume they all passed bills to override the will of the people.

[czarjak]

8. Page gotta be turned sometime?

[Hortensis]

11. OK! By small margin for, but "against" voters will be signing up.

That's just...them in this era. The "hands off my Social Security" folk vote for candidates who would repeal it in a moment if they could.