Senate leaders say they're dead set on a work requirement for expansion, which others say is not likely to be approved by the feds.
Medicaid expansion bill inches forward in Senate with few details by Sophia Paffenroth, Mississippi Today March 5, 2024 Senate Republican leaders continue to keep any particulars of their Medicaid expansion plans close to the vest, with a committee passing only a shell of a bill Tuesday to meet a deadline and keep it alive. Meanwhile, a Medicaid expansion bill the House passed last week sits untouched in the Senate, and the two Republican-led chambers do not appear to be in sync on the issue.
Blackwell and other Senate Republicans realize the realpolitik of getting a work requirement approved, and say implementing expansion could perhaps be pushed back until after this year's presidential election, so a new administration might approve a work requirement. While both House and Senate leaders say they support a work requirement, the one in House Bill 1725 – which overwhelmingly passed the House – is only a “best-case scenario.
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