Is it inevitable that all 50 states will expand Medicaid?

Pennsylvania on Thursday became the 27^th state to implement a Medicaid expansion plan, as offered in the Obamacare reforms. The announcement prompted Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a nonprofit group that advocates for health care consumers, to predict that soon all 50 states will offer expanded Medicaid coverage.

Here is a statement from Pollack:

“The agreement today between the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Pennsylvania Gov. Corbett to expand the state’s Medicaid program will provide needed health coverage for half a million uninsured state residents. Pennsylvania is the 27^th state, plus the District of Columbia, to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

“This step by Pennsylvania is indicative of an inevitable movement that will ultimately result in Medicaid expansions in all states across the country. In reaching agreement with CMS, Gov. Corbett joins Republican governors in Arizona, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Ohio who realize it makes no sense for states to pass up the availability of unprecedented federal funds to help low-income uninsured people receive much-needed health care. It would be an act of fiscal malpractice for governors to turn down this money.”