Pennsylvania (PA-18) voters say the GOPs health care antics cost Saccone their vote
Election night exit polling by Public Policy Polling found that among PA-18 voters who said health care was the most important issue, Democrat Conor Lamb beat Republican Rick Saccone by a margin of 64 to 36. Saccone’s support of the Republican health care agenda — namely, efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — made 41 percent of voters less likely to vote for him. Fifty-three percent of voters disapproved of GOP efforts to repeal the health care law and 48 percent believed Republicans are trying to sabotage the law since they failed to repeal it.
Pennsylvanians — namely, those living in rural areas — have also benefited from the state’s Medicaid expansion under the ACA, which went into effect in 2015 and has been touted by health experts as means of addressing the state’s opioid crisis. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) declared the epidemic a statewide disaster emergency earlier this year.
While Lamb has acknowledged that Obamacare has its flaws, he ran his campaign on fixing and building upon the law, rather than repealing it. If Medicaid expansion were repealed, approximately 585,000 Pennsylvanians would lose health coverage.
https://thinkprogress.org/pennsylvania-voters-say-health-care-is-top-priority-704c7fcf0783/
Link to PPP''s exit poll data:
https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/PA18PostElectionSurvey.pdf
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^^^ THIS regarding Wolf doing the FULL Medicaid expansion vs Corbett's convoluted nonsense and thankfully, the law allows a governor to unilaterally do this. 
And as an interesting sidenote, I was looking at the county breakdown of elections results for the 2014 gubernatorial election, and around that SW corner of PA - Allegheny, Greene & Fayette Counties voted for Wolf, Beaver was a bare win for Wolf, Westmoreland went for Corbett, & Washington County was a bare win for Corbett -
http://www.electionreturns.pa.gov/General/CountyBreakDownResults?officeId=3&districtId=1&ElectionID=41&ElectionType=G&IsActive=0
And as a P.S. - I know that a number of us here in the east were initially reticent about Wolf given his "business" background (although it was his own family's pretty significant business), but he appealed to all types across the state, including as a "button down liberal" and very family-oriented (and fortunately able to fund his own campaign, doesn't take a salary, nor lives at the governor's mansion) and is very much born and bread in south-central PA (York) from an old well-known family (with a mountain named after them).
It is imperative that we vote here to also ensure that he gets re-elected so that he is there during the 2020 census!
