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It is reasonable to assume that in many ways, Jason White is still the person he was when he ran as a rural Democrat.
If they only knew then what they know now. In hindsight, Mississippians who supported Medicaid expansion would have been ...
State Medicaid systems are scrambling to prepare for painful cuts under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, leaving private ...
For more than a decade during which Mississippi held out against expanding Medicaid to the working poor, there were two main ...
For Black Southerners in states that have not expanded the program under the Affordable Care Act, the “coverage gap” echoes ...
But because Missouri, Oklahoma and South Dakota have put Medicaid expansion in their constitutions, they can’t easily take those steps. “Legislators cannot change that law without going back ...
A 2022 Mercatus Center study revealed that Medicaid spending on children grew by just 5.9% per capita in expansion states like Colorado from 2013 to 2019, compared to 22.7% in non-expansion states ...
Mississippians who supported Medicaid expansion would have been better off had they accepted a work requirement in the 2024 ...
But voters in three states have significantly limited those options by enshrining Medicaid expansion in their constitutions — creating a potential budget disaster and a political challenge for ...