It seems you are going to win with “feel good ideology” and lose in every other respect. Just like the house.
I stopped at the word 'seems' because I saw that I was about to receive your emotional perception in place of any critical thought regarding the facts I just posted. "Feel good ideology"? You are out of your mind.
What part of Medicaid expansion do you not get? States that sign up are now on the hook for life to provide Medicaid coverage to an expanded class of people. And by 'on the hook', I mean that the working citizens of their prospective states will bear the brunt of paying for it. Sure, the federal government is offering 100% pure heroin that first year. But once the state gets hooked, the government starts stepping on that heroin, decreasing its purity down to 90%, then 80%, then 70%. And before you know it, that smack just isn't getting you high any more. Yet you're still hooked, and you keep buying and buying and buying.
Again, I praise my Governor (whom I don't even like) for (as Nancy Reagan would say) "Just saying 'no'".
In coming years, as states like Arizona find it harder and harder to come up with enough cash to pay for a fresh influx of welfare recipients, states like Georgia will be holding the line because they recognized socialism for what it was and chose to opt out.