The Medicaid Expansion Trap: How SQ 802 Turned “Free Federal Money” Into a Half-Billion-Dollar Annual Raid on Oklahoma Taxpayers

OKLAHOMA CITY — Five and a half years after Oklahoma voters narrowly approved State Question 802, the so-called “free” federal Medicaid expansion has proven exactly what limited-government conservatives warned it would be: a constitutional trap, an open-ended raid on the state’s General Revenue Fund, and a textbook lesson in why big-government promises sold at the ballot box almost always end up costing Oklahoma families dearly.