Originally Posted by kane

Obamacare allows for the expansion of eligibility for Medicaid to include people of lower income. It allows for federal funds to go to states that expand their programs to include these people. Many red states are refusing to expand their Medicaid program, even though the cost will be covered by the federal government, because they don't like Obamacare and they don't want to be seen as going along with it.

Part of the republican lawsuits against Obamacare was to allow states to "opt out" of the medicare expansion it was granted by the supreme court.