Aaron Carroll has a post entitled I guess they did want Obamacare to be more expensive. Looks like Confederate states are hell bent on doing Medicaid expansion under Obamacare in a horribly expensive fashion.

Carroll purports to be surprised because this is coming out of the same political faction who claimed Obamacare should be opposed because it was too expensive. Cost was always primarily a pretext. Note that the same contingent is not concerned about expense when it’s time to talk about war or tax cuts or farm subsidies. Among other things, they probably want to set Medicaid expansion up for failure so they can complain that it’s broken and too expensive down the road after forgetting that they insisted it be broken and expensive.