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/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/AP-24108763766346-resized.jpg26001733Ten states have not expanded Medicaid, leaving 1.5 million people ineligible for the state and federal insurance program and also unable to afford private insurance. Seven of those states are in the South, where expansion efforts may have momentum but where lawmakers say political polarization is holding them back.