Medicaid expansion could be coming to Mississippi with a dash of Arkansas-style policy, but hurdles remain

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Medicaid expansion could be coming to Mississippi with a dash of Arkansas-style policy, but hurdles remain

KFF Check out map of which states have adopted Medicaid expansion, from health care policy nonprofit KFF. It’s kind of wild, given how bitterly Republican politicians initially opposed the policy. Mississippi could be next, where an expansion measure continues to advance in the state Legislature — with a plan perhaps partly inspired by the unusual variation on Medicaid expansion first enacted in Arkansas in 2014. The Mississippi proposals curre…