Garcia: No-brainer - By backing Medicaid expansion, Republican State Rep. Lyle Larson chooses common sense over partisanship
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States don’t get much redder than Oklahoma.
Republicans have carried the Sooner State in every presidential election after 1964. No Democratic presidential nominee in the past 20 years has come within 30 percentage points of winning the state.
Nonetheless, last June the ultra-Republican voters of Oklahoma voted albeit narrowly to approve a major provision of the defining legislative achievement of former Democratic President Barack Obama.
Oklahomans agreed to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), a federal law that Republicans have spent the past 11 years trying to repeal.