Expert Says Medicaid Expansion Reaching “Tipping Point.”

CNBC (1/26, Mangan) reports that Louisiana recently became the 31st state to expand Medicaid, and three other states, “South Dakota, Wyoming and Virginia, are discussing such a move.” The addition of those states “would provide the program even more critical mass and complicate efforts at widespread repeal or a piecemeal undoing.” Diane Rowland, executive vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, said, “I do think we’ve reached the tipping point,” adding, “It’s part of the fabric of our health-care system now.”