New legislative leadership and concerns about struggling rural hospitals have made expansion possible in Mississippi.
It's one of several GOP-dominated states that have seriously discussed Medicaid expansion this year, a sign
A new House speaker who strongly backs expansion and growing fears that the state's rural hospitals can't survive without it have kept up momentum in Mississippi's legislature this year.The House bill is the traditional ACA expansion, extending coverage to adults earning 138% of the federal poverty level, or about $21,000.
Both plans include a work requirement, but only the House version would still allow expansion to take effect without it. The Biden administration opposes work rules, but former President Trump couldThe fact that the extra federal funding from the ACA expansion could lift state budgets as pandemic aid dries up has also piqued states' interest, said Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center on Children and Families.
"We see an unhealthy population that's uncovered. And we see this as the best way" to insure them, White toldThe state's crumbling health infrastructure
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