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Only Nixon could go to China.
Even Donald can't get corrupt red states to extend medicaid to
the poor.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/residents-suffer-mississippi-
13-other-states-debate-medicaid-expansion-n1075661
Mississippi is one of 14 states that chose
not to expand Medicaid, forgoing about $1
billion from the federal government each
year since 2012 when the Affordable Care
Act offered states the opportunity to expand
care.
The states that choose to go along with the
program, first rolled out under the ACA, will
eventually have to provide a 10 percent match
of the funds by 2020. That would cost
Mississippi about $100 million a year, and
Republican lawmakers insisted it would be
detrimental to the state economy.
In Mississippi, a state that has one of the
highest uninsured rates in the country —
currently ranked at 45 out of 50 — about
100,000 people fall in the same coverage
gap as Velasco, according to the Kaiser
Family Foundation. In total, 2.5 million
poor adults fall into that same gap in the
14 states that did not expand Medicaid.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/08/05/898899246/mis
souri-voters-approve-medicaid-expansion-despite-resistance-from-re
publican-le
Despite strong opposition from Republicans
and rural voters, Missouri on Tuesday joined
37 states and the District of Columbia in
expanding its Medicaid program.
Voters in Missouri approved creating a state
constitutional amendment that will open
Medicaid eligibility to include healthy
adults starting on July 1, 2021.
Missouri joins five other mostly conservative
states that have passed Medicaid expansion
via ballot initiatives, most recently Oklahoma,
which voted in the measure on June 30. Most
of the remaining 12 states that haven't
expanded Medicaid are Republican-leaning states
in the South.
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