None of the Republican statewide officials who spoke endorsed Medicaid expansion as a way to reduce the number of people without health insurance and as a way to provide a needed source of revenue for the state’s struggling hospitals.
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today August 3, 2023 In 2013, then-state Rep. Andy Gipson, R-Braxton, said he opposed Mississippi expanding Medicaid because there was no guarantee the federal government would continue to pay for the program.
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