The Mississippi House proposed expanding Medicaid coverage to people who earn up to 138% of the federal poverty level, while the Senate advocated for a slower approach.
Top Mississippi lawmakers started negotiating Tuesday on what could become a landmark plan to expand Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands of people in one of the poorest states in the U.S. But even with Republicans controlling both the state House and Senate, it's far from clear that they will reach a compromise during the final days of their four-month session that is scheduled to end by early May.
Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has said for years that he opposes putting more people on government programs. Expansion is getting its first serious discussion in the Mississippi Capitol this year because the new House speaker, Republican Jason White, says it is one of his priorities. The House voted by a wide bipartisan margin in late February to expand Medicaid coverage to about 200,000 people who earn up to 138% of the federal poverty level, or $20,120 annually for one person.
In the House’s case, I think you guys want to jump in the sports car and zoom right to expansion — damn the roadblocks and let’s get there,' Blackwell said. 'Those of us in the Senate want to take sort of a more slower approach to that.' McGee responded: 'I don't feel like we have been in a Ferrari very long. I think we have been waiting 10 years. ... We don't need to push this off any longer for our low-income yet hardworking Mississippians.
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