80% of Mississippians and 70% of Mississippi Republicans support Medicaid expansion, according to a @[email protected] poll.
MT quotes one Republican voter: "I think we do have a responsibility as a society to help folks. ... The right to live is a basic right."https://mississippitoday.org/2023/01/18/medicaid-expansion-mississippi-poll/
Gov. Tate Reeves opposes Medicaid expansion.
But on May 12, 2021, a group launched an effort to put Medicaid expansion on the ballot to save rural hospitals.
But two days later, the Missisisppi Supreme Court nullified the entire ballot initiative process.https://www.mississippifreepress.org/12117/medicaid-expansion-ballot-drive-begins-in-mississippi-a-matter-of-life-and-death
A group of voters is asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to allow them to intervene for a rehearing in Watson v. Butler and to reconsider its decision to strike down Initiative 65, the voter-approved medical marijuana law, and to revive the state's ballot initiative law, which a 6-3 majority of justices nullified as part of its ruling.
Without Medicaid expansion, 54% of Mississippi's hospitals are in danger of closing, medical leaders have warned state lawmakers late last year.
But Gov. Tate Reeves and House Speaker Gunn continue to oppose what Reeves calls "Obamacare expansion."
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/30094/mississippi-health-care-faces-looming-disaster-medical-group-warns-lawmakers
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