Virginia’s new governor campaigned on Medicaid expansion, but now is sending mixed signals

Months before Virginia Gov.-elect Ralph Northam rode a massive Democratic wave of progressive support into victory in November, he ran on a platform that specifically championed expanding Medicaid, which offers health insurance to low-income people. Northam, whose campaign website currently shows him providing medical care to a child and whose logo features heart monitor imagery, campaigned on the issue by pointing to a June 2016 speech in which he argued for Medicaid expansion on moral an...