Affordable Care Act: Republicans in the House have voted about 60 times to roll back the Affordable Care Act. But Democrats in the U.S. Senate have blocked those efforts, and President Barack Obama has insisted he would veto any bill that damaged his signature healthcare law.

Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards made Louisiana the first state in the Deep South willing to adopt a key component of law by expanding Medicaid rolls to include residents who make too much money to qualify for government insurance but too little to buy adequate coverage on the open market.

The major Senate candidates were asked if they agreed with expanding the Medicaid rolls.