'We are hopeful a compromise is on the horizon. When people are healthy, they are working, raising their families, and contributing to their communities.' -- Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann
Editorial: Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann's dug-in position on Medicaid expansion threatens to kill one of the most transformative policy proposals in state history.
National studies and experts in Medicaid expansion states refute concerns voiced in Mississippi’s legislative conference committee that costs to the state would exceed projections.
Medicaid Chairman Kevin Blackwell says Senate is 'working on a compromise' on expansion.
Editorial: Happy Tax Day, when millions of us Mississippians will send our hard-earned money to 40 other states that are providing health care coverage to millions of poor, working people.
House negotiators on Medicaid expansion offered a major compromise Tuesday and said they were willing to go further. Senate negotiators, however, did not reciprocate and said they didn't see much room for compromise at all.
Leaders of Mississippi Hills Leadership PAC say expansion is 'the most important legislative issue for the 2024 session.'
Those at the rally made clear they support "Full expansion now," which they frequently chanted, and not the Senate proposal, which its drafters have referred to as "expansion lite."
The six members, called conferees, will attempt to forge an agreement over the different versions of the expansion plan that have passed the House and Senate.
Mississippi Today’s Bobby Harrison, Geoff Pender and Taylor Vance discuss the biggest issues – Medicaid expansion, school funding and PERS – that could spur contentious final days of the 2024 legislative session.
Strapped with a bill from his childhood injury, Sen. Chad McMahan's family struggled with the medical debt. He wants to help other Mississippi families avoid such struggles.
House and Senate Republicans still appeared far apart in a first public meeting attempting to find a compromise on Medicaid expansion