The Purple State Medicaid Expansion Conundrum: Wisconsin versus North Carolina

• In Event: Navigating Crisis: State Health Policy Decisions

Brief Overview

The purpose of this paper is to answer the following research question: What factors explain
why North Carolina was able to expand Medicaid in 2023 and Wisconsin despite being a
similar state in terms of partisanship, has not?

Author

• William Monk, Marquette University