North Mississippi business leaders urge Legislature to pass Medicaid expansion

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Leaders of Mississippi Hills Leadership PAC say expansion is 'the most important legislative issue for the 2024 session.'

North Mississippi business leaders urge Legislature to pass Medicaid expansion by Taylor Vance, Mississippi Today April 22, 2024 A group of business leaders from northeast Mississippi, one of the most conservative areas of the state, recently wrote a letter to House Speaker Jason White encouraging lawmakers to expand Medicaid coverage to the working poor.

The letter comes in the middle of House and Senate leaders attempting to hammer out a compromise in a conference committee to resolve the different expansion plans the chambers have proposed.   The House’s expansion plan aims to expand health care coverage to upwards of 200,000 Mississippians, and accept $1 billion a year in federal money to cover it, as most other states have done.

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