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In Mississippi, the poorest state in the nation, Republican lawmakers have loosened their decadelong resistance to expanding Medicaid and making health insurance available to roughly 200,000 of ...
Mississippi Medicaid Committee Chairs Sen. Kevin Blackwell, R-Southaven, far right, and Rep. Missy McGee, R-Hattiesburg, middle, speak with a Legislature staff member Monday evening in the ...
A new Mississippi law will allow earlier Medicaid coverage for pregnant women in an effort to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies in a poor state with the nation’s worst rate of ...
A Mississippi Senate Committee moved forward an amended Medicaid expansion bill Wednesday that seeks to provide free healthcare to about 80,000 of the state's poorest working people. Medicaid ...
The plan also included a 20 hour per week work requirement, but if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did not approve of it, the state would expand Medicaid anyway.
Read more about House Medicaid version Mississippi House passes state's first Medicaid expansion bill Grant McLaughlin covers state government for the Clarion Ledger. He can be reached at ...
[12] [13] Softening the eligibility requirements for Medicaid was a central goal of the ACA, [14] forming a two-pronged policy along with subsidized private insurance via health insurance marketplaces to expand health insurance coverage in the U.S. [15] [7] [3] The Medicaid expansion provision of the ACA allowed states to lower the income ...
A new Mississippi law will allow earlier Medicaid coverage for pregnant women in an effort to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies in a poor state with the worst rate of infant mortality ...