Despite the potential to make more money, companies haven’t jumped at the opportunity in states that have lowered barriers. Insurance department officials in Georgia, Maine and Wyoming told Governing that no out-of-state insurers have expressed interest, and no such policies have been sold. Denise Burke, a senior policy and planning analyst with Wyoming’s insurance department, suspects…
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Right vs. Left in the Midwest
MINNESOTA and Wisconsin share much more than bone-chilling winters: German and Northern European roots; farming; and, until recently, a populist progressive tradition stretching back a century to Wisconsin’s Fighting Bob La Follette and the birth of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. But in 2010 these cousin states diverged. By doing so they began a natural experiment that…
Michigans Rick Snyder Becomes Sixth GOP Governor To Back Health Laws Medicaid Expansion
News outlets examine the political dynamics spurring some former opponents of the law to sign onto one of its most significant provisions. The Associated Press/Washington Post: Republican Gov. Rick Snyder Backs Expanding Medicaid To Michigans Uninsured In US Health PlanRepublican Gov. Rick Snyder on Wednesday backed the extension of Medicaid coverage to 470,000 residents…
Web Quiz Tells You Which Presidential Candidate Best Fits Your Worldview
Take one guy with an abiding interest in politics, another guy with website-building skills and throw in the shared desire to get people more engaged in the political process, and you have the ingredients for an interactive site called ISideWith.com. The site’s purpose is to show you which presidential candidate’s views most align with yours…
Most Red States Take More Money From Washington Than They Put In
Most politically “red” states are financially in the red when it comes to how much money they receive from Washington compared with what their residents pay in taxes. A look at 2010 Census and IRS data reveals that the 50 states and the District of Columbia, on average, received $1.29 in federal spending for every…
Mapping the Effects of the ACA’s Health Insurance Reform
The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions that allow many individuals across the U.S. to be eligible for Medicaid or for federal tax credits to subsidize the cost of insurance. The analysis below and zip code tool estimate the share of the population in geographic areas across the U.S. who had family income up to…
Team Obama Sketches Out Path To 270
In a video to supporters Thursday, Obama 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina made public the many paths to 270 electoral votes he sketched out for reporters last month. The major highlights: Messina says the campaign is working with more than 40 pathways to victory next year, including strategies that run through Florida and the Midwest…
Most States Experience Significant Rise In Levels Of ‘Deep Poverty’
The closer one looks at the Census data on American poverty, the more discouraging it becomes. It was already known that the national poverty rate climbed to 15.1 percent last year, the greatest percentage since 1993, and that the actual number of Americans living in poverty had hit 46.2 million, the highest number…