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This is inaccurate as written because it treats Andy Beshear, John Bel Edwards, and Laura Kelly as parallel examples of governors who had already resolved Medicaid expansion.

• John Bel Edwards did expand Medicaid in Louisiana. KFF notes that he signed Louisiana’s ACA Medicaid expansion into law in January 2016.
• Kansas, however, had still not adopted Medicaid expansion as of the article’s publication window. KFF’s May 21, 2026 status tracker says 10 states had not adopted the expansion, and Kansas was still one of them. Kansas legislative materials from 2025 likewise say "Because Kansas has not expanded Medicaid", and earlier testimony supporting Gov. Laura Kelly’s proposal said Kansas was still one of the states that had not yet expanded Medicaid. So Laura Kelly had not, in fact, already "solved the issue again."
• The Kentucky example is also off. KFF’s overview of state expansion adoption says former Democratic Governor Beshear adopted Kentucky’s expansion through executive action in May 2013. Andy Beshear later defended and preserved Kentucky’s expansion, but he was not the governor who originally adopted it.

So the sentence is misleading because it presents all three names as examples of governors who had already completed the same policy step, when Kansas had not expanded Medicaid and Kentucky’s original expansion predates Andy Beshear’s governorship.