Obamacare didn’t just give more people health insurance. It also caused more people to vote.
That’s the conclusion of a new body of evidence that strongly suggests that giving people coverage through expansions of the Medicaid program increases their likelihood of participating in the next election. Medicaid expansions seem to raise both voter registration and voter participation, at least temporarily.
On Tuesday, voters in three states approved measures to further expand Medicaid. The election of Democratic governors in three more could also prompt new expansions. Researchers who worked on three recent studies of the effects say it’s likely that those expansions will have a similar effect on voting in the next election cycle.
[For more on this story by Margot Sanger-Katz, go to https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1...voting-increase.html]
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