Mississippi lawmakers save Medicaid, but GOP blocks expansion
Source: MSNBC
Mississippi lawmakers save Medicaid, but GOP blocks expansion
Rep. John Hines, Sr., D-Greenville, waves a map showing counties that are not part of the federal health insurance exchange as he calls on lawmakers to make health care more accessible to hundreds of thousands of uninsured people by expanding the coverage as they consider an amendment during debate over a Medicaid reauthorization bill late Thursday morning, June 27, 2013 at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. (Photo by Rogelio V. Solis/AP)
Rep. John Hines, Sr., D-Greenville, waves a map showing counties that are not part of the federal health insurance exchange as he calls on lawmakers to make health care more accessible to hundreds of thousands of uninsured people by expanding the coverage as they consider an amendment during debate over a Medicaid reauthorization bill late Thursday morning, June 27, 2013 at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. (Photo by Rogelio V. Solis/AP)
It’s been exactly one year since the Supreme Court ruled that the Affordable Care Act was the law of the land, but Republicans continue to reject it.
Friday that rejection came in Mississippi where the majority of Senate Republicans, under the leadership of their Governor Phil Bryant, rejected a Medicaid expansion plan that was expected to insure an additional 300,000 people in the state, the day after House Republicans rejected a similar plan.
Read more: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/06/28/mississippi-lawmakers-save-medicaid-but-gop-blocks-expansion/
I'd be ashamed if I came from Ms., at this time
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