Ballot Initiative

  • Read more: Election Round Up: Medicaid Expansion is an Electoral Winner

    Election Round Up: Medicaid Expansion is an Electoral Winner

    By Rahul Nayak With the midterm elections now behind us, I thought it was time to revisit a prior blog post where I discussed the prospects of state Medicaid expansion ballot propositions in Idaho, Utah, and Nebraska. I had predicted that despite the conservative nature of these states, Medicaid expansion would have a good chance…

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  • Read more: Update: Proposition 46

    Update: Proposition 46

    By Emily Largent I previously wrote about California Proposition 46–which proposed to raise the cap on pain and suffering awards in malpractice cases from $250,000 to $1.1 million, require doctors to check a statewide database of drug prescriptions before prescribing some narcotics, and require doctors to undergo random drug and alcohol testing–here. What happened?  On Tuesday, voters “soundly defeated a…