Voters Decide 10 State Healthcare Ballot Measures, Including Medicaid Funding Tie
In a roundup citing a Nov. 10 Politico analysis, Becker's Hospital Review reports that voters in seven states decided 10 healthcare-related ballot measures in the midterm elections, with five passing and five failing. Nevada and Virginia voters approved constitutional reproductive rights protections, while Missouri voters rejected repealing existing abortion protections and Idaho voters rejected a reproductive healthcare decision-making right. California voters approved $8.4 billion in research bonds but rejected a billionaire tax for healthcare funding and a nonprofit health center spending requirement; Colorado voters approved a graduated income tax directing revenue partly to healthcare and a ban on certain gender-affirming surgeries for minors. South Dakota voters rejected a measure that would have tied continued Medicaid expansion coverage to the federal government maintaining at least a 90% funding share.