A very good friend of mine signed up at health care.gov last week.

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154. How much was she paying before?

I'm working on my license for life and health and my state has the highest cost for insurance and my Governor did NOT accept the Medicaid expansion. Therein lies the problem. Were your friend to move to the great state of Kentucky, she would have no problem, were she to move here to Alaska her plan would run nearly 900 bucks before the subsidy. It's the RepublicN Governors who did this to screw up the ACA. And you just fell for it, hook, line, and sinker.

The ACA, and yes I have read it, provided for Medicaid expansion for ALL states. The idiotic Supreme Court ruled that the states do NOT have to expand Medicaid. The states that did expand Medicaid are doing excellent with implementing the PPACA. The other states are fighting it tooth and nail, because they know that once we are all covered, they can't take the coverage away without risking elections.

I'm not lying to you. I hate liars. The ACA did provide for Medicaid expansion and the Supreme Court overruled it, and the states that rejected it have these problems with people falling into the gap.
It's the state, dear, it really is.