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A Health-Heavy State of the Union

Kaiser Health News

And as we discovered in 2017, when they were trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid is actually pretty popular, too, because it takes care of a lot of people’s grandparents in nursing homes. And, you know, the ACA, or Obamacare, actually made a lot of headway in covering big swaths of the uninsured population.