Vandy Poll: Voters Favor Expansion of Medicaid - Articles

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Posted by: Brittany Sims on Dec 4, 2014

A new poll by Vanderbilt University reveals that most registered voters in Tennessee (56 percent) say they strongly or somewhat support expanding Medicaid to provide medical care for people living on low incomes and favor accepting federal dollars to do so. Even so,  the Affordable Care Act itself continues to be unpopular, with 44 percent saying they generally feel unfavorable to it. The Vanderbilt Poll is conducted just prior to and then after each session of the Tennessee General Assembly in order to gauge how closely the concerns of citizens align with their representatives in Nashville.