Health Care

Medicaid expansion

51 public statements from 2026 candidates

§1The range of views

Why this matters: This decides whether many low-income adults in a state can get Medicaid coverage, and how much the state spends on it.

Drafted by AI, then checked for neutral wording in a separate AI review. It describes the question and the main positions, not any candidate's view. Facts link to their sources.

Whether a state covers adults with incomes up to 138% of the poverty line through Medicaid, as the Affordable Care Act lets states do, with the federal government paying 90% of the cost for those adults.^1,2

Don't expand Medicaid, or end the expansion
Expand or keep it, adding state conditions beyond federal rules, such as premiums
Expand or keep it with only the conditions federal law requires

These options describe policies, not people. The order is not a ranking.

§2What candidates have said

Why this matters: Statements candidates made publicly, summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Candidates who haven't spoken publicly on this issue aren't listed.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Don't expand Medicaid, or end the expansion (1)

Bob Onder MO-3
His campaign website says he led successful fights against Medicaid expansion in 2021 and 2022.³

Statements that don't match one option (50)

Jonathan S. "JKT" Kreiss-Tomkins AK Governor
His campaign website says he would protect Medicaid expansion.⁴
Clyde Jones AL-1
His campaign website says he supports expanding Medicaid in Alabama and backs a federal proposal, which it calls The First Domino, for a federally run coverage program open to eligible residents of states that have not expanded Medicaid.⁵
Shomari C. Figures AL-2
His campaign website says he has pushed for Alabama to expand Medicaid.⁶
Amanda N. Pusczek AL-4
Her campaign website says the federal government should be able to enroll eligible low-income residents of states that have not expanded Medicaid, such as Alabama, directly in coverage, and that those states should be offered full federal funding for the first five years of expansion.⁷
Andrew Sneed AL-5
His campaign website lists expanding Medicaid among his health care priorities.⁸
Terri Sewell AL-7
Her campaign website says Alabama must expand Medicaid and that she wrote the Bridge to Medicaid Act to offer temporary coverage to people in the coverage gap in states that have not expanded it.⁹
Doug Jones AL Governor
His campaign website says he would expand Medicaid to cover more than 154,000 working Alabamians and stop the state from turning down federal health care funding.^10,11
Lateefah Simon CA-12
Her campaign website says she would close the Medicaid coverage gap.¹²
Adam Withrow CO Senate
His campaign website says the Medicaid coverage gap must be closed.¹³
Jennifer Jenkins FL-8
Her campaign website says she will work to expand Medicaid so Floridians are not forced into emergency care or medical debt.¹⁴
Darren Soto FL-9
A 2018 Spanish-language page still on his campaign website says he has been leading the fight to expand Medicaid in Florida.¹⁵
Robert People FL-15
His healthcare plan says he would vote to expand Medicaid coverage requirements for all states.¹⁶
Matthew Montavon FL-17
His campaign website says Congress should close the gap the Affordable Care Act leaves in Medicaid coverage, a gap that lets states such as Florida decline additional federal funding for health coverage for low-income families.¹⁷
David Jolly FL Governor
His campaign website says Florida should expand Medicaid.¹⁸
Dean Ocean Abrams FL Governor
His campaign website says he would direct the state's health care agency to pursue a waiver to cover the roughly 800,000 Floridians it says fall into the coverage gap.^19,20
Jon Ossoff GA Senate
His campaign website says he has fought to expand Medicaid in Georgia.²¹
Amanda Hollowell GA-1
Her campaign website says families in Georgia’s 1st District are losing access to basic care because Medicaid has not been expanded, and her 10 Point Affordability Agenda calls for expanding Medicaid and closing Georgia’s healthcare coverage gap.^22,23,24
Henry "Hank" Johnson, Jr. GA-4
His campaign website says he has consistently advocated for the Affordable Care Act, which it says expanded Medicaid.²⁵
Jonathan Chavez GA-13
His campaign website says he would advance affordability through Medicaid expansion.²⁶
Rick Jackson GA Governor
His action plan calls for expanding Medicaid through a Georgia-designed waiver to close the coverage gap for low-income working adults and families; for adults who are able to work, it would pair coverage with pathways into jobs while recognizing education, job training, caregiving and treatment, and it would use private and employer coverage where that offers better value.²⁷
Keisha Lance Bottoms GA Governor
Her campaign website says she would expand Medicaid and end the Georgia Pathways program, replacing it with coverage she says would work better for families.²⁸
John R. Stegner ID Governor
His campaign website says he supports voter-passed initiatives, including restoring Medicaid access for Idahoans who lost it.²⁹
La Shawn K. Ford IL-7
His campaign website lists full protection of Medicaid expansion among the things he will fight for.³⁰
Bill Foster IL-11
His campaign website says the next steps for the health care system include further expanding eligibility and coverage for Medicaid, which he says he has voted for repeatedly.³¹
Sharice L. Davids KS-3
Her campaign website says she supported expanding Medicaid to provide health insurance for 165,000 Kansans.³²
Cindy Holscher KS Governor
Her campaign website says she has worked for years to expand Medicaid, would do so as governor and wants Medicaid available to more low- and moderate-income Kansans.^33,34
John "Drew" Williams KY-1
His campaign website proposes a Farmhand Healthcare & Dignity Act that would extend Medicaid eligibility to full-time farmers and farmhands earning under $50,000 a year.³⁵
Morgan McGarvey KY-3
His campaign website says the Affordable Care Act and Kentucky's Medicaid expansion brought health insurance coverage to over 400,000 Kentuckians, and calls it a game changer for families.³⁶
Lauren Jewett LA-1
Her campaign website says she will push to expand the Affordable Care Act and work to close the Medicaid coverage gap.³⁷
Priscilla Gonzalez LA-3
Her campaign website says Louisiana should continue to expand Medicaid eligibility to help more low-income people and families.³⁸
Lindsay "Rubia" Garcia LA-6
Her campaign website's Issues page says she will go to Washington to defend Medicaid expansion and to fight for funding to stabilize rural hospitals.³⁹
Richard E. Neal MA-1
His campaign website says he continues to protect programs such as the Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act.⁴⁰
Sean McCann MI-4
His campaign website lists his vote in the Michigan Legislature to expand Medicaid access to over a million people in Michigan among his proudest votes.⁴¹
Bethany E Mann MO-3
Her campaign website says Missourians voted overwhelmingly for Medicaid expansion and that the state's failure to expand Medicaid, together with corporate consolidation of medical centers, led rural hospitals to close or cut services.^42,43
Emanuel Cleaver, II MO-5
His campaign website says he supports expanding Medicaid and filling gaps in coverage so that people in underserved and rural areas can get care close to home rather than traveling for hours.⁴⁴
Scott Colom MS Senate
His campaign website says he would restore and strengthen federal ACA funding meant to encourage Mississippi to expand Medicaid coverage.⁴⁵
Michael A. Chiaradio MS-3
His healthcare statement, linked from his Issues page, says he would introduce legislation expanding Medicaid eligibility for working-age Americans.⁴⁶
Jeffrey Hulum III MS-4
His campaign website says Mississippi’s decision not to expand Medicaid leaves about 74,000 residents in a coverage gap and about $2 billion a year in federal funds unused, and its FAQ page says he supports accepting those federal Medicaid dollars.^47,48
Alani Bankhead MT Senate
Her campaign website says she would defend Montana's Medicaid expansion, which it says covers about 74,000 Montanans and helps keep rural hospitals open.⁴⁹
Seth Bodnar MT Senate
His campaign website says he would defend Medicaid expansion.⁵⁰
Deborah K. Ross NC-2
Her campaign health care page says she fought for more than 10 years in the state legislature to pass Medicaid expansion in North Carolina.⁵¹
Raymond Smith NC-3
His campaign About page says that as a state legislator he introduced legislation to expand Medicaid to more than 600,000 North Carolinians.⁵²
Valerie P. Foushee NC-4
Her campaign website says she expanded Medicaid in North Carolina while she was in the State Senate.⁵³
Richard N. Ojeda II NC-9
His campaign website's Ensuring Quality Healthcare page says he will push to expand Medicaid in North Carolina and fight to keep the people who rely on it covered. Its Investing in North Carolina page says he would work to expand Medicaid and keep rural hospitals open.^54,55
Alma S. Adams NC-12
Her campaign website says she fought for decades for North Carolina to expand Medicaid, which the state has since done, and that she pushed to close the Medicaid coverage gap.^56,57
Zack Mullock NJ-2
It also says he will work to widen who qualifies for Medicare and Medicaid among low-income and rural residents of New Jersey.⁵⁸
Annie Andrews SC Senate
Her health care plan says South Carolina should expand Medicaid, which it says would cover 360,000 more South Carolinians.⁵⁹
Walid Hakim SC Governor
His platform calls for expanding Medicaid by accepting all available federal funds.⁶⁰
Jerri Green TN Governor
Her platform calls for expanding Medicaid to cover more working families and keep rural hospitals open.⁶¹
Dave Seeman TN Governor
His platform proposes a federal waiver to cover every adult below the poverty line through Medicaid.⁶²