As the 90-day session comes closer to an end, the idea of Medicaid expansion isn't looking very promising this year in Mississippi.

Hundreds of thousands of poor, disabled or pregnant Mississippians could lose health care coverage if Congress slashes funding for Medicaid.

After two rounds of votes, the bill passed with a vote of 217 to 215. The bill proposes $2 trillion in cuts from the budget which could take funding from social programs like Medicaid. With one in four Mississippians heavily relying on Medicaid,

Mississippi— has traditionally been the recipient of more federal dollars per capita than any other. We’ve lived off the federal spending spigot for most of our lives.

Gov. Tate Reeves is having none of it, however, balking at the feds’ benevolence with hardline recalcitrance toward expanding the Medicaid.

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Social Security and Medicare have historically been considered untouchable because the main beneficiaries of those two programs — people in their 60s and above — are growing in number, and they turn out on Election Day.

A lawmaker playing hardball may cost poor pregnant women a policy that would help them receive timely prenatal care.

Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for people with low incomes or disabilities, touches millions of Americans and has become deeply woven into the U.S. health care system.