Deborah Merriman is struggling to understand why she's been left out of the great Medicaid expansion that occurred across half the nation on New Year's Day.
"I'm in a wheelchair, and I'm going blind," the 51-year-old Cleveland, Tenn., woman said. "I've been trying to get on disability. ... It's not easy. If you don't have health insurance, you can't even get in to see a doctor."
Merriman and her 29-year-old daughter, Peggy, both unemployed, were counting on help to get insurance coverage from the federal Affordable Care Act when major provisions of the law took effect Jan.
