Mississippi: Schrödinger's Medicaid Expansion passes MS House!

Two weeks ago: As I concluded in the last piece: I strongly suspect that at least one of the remaining holdout states will join the expansion crowd this year, most likely Georgia, Mississippi or Alabama...but it likely will be some state-specific variant as described above. Stay tuned... ...As I noted, however, in all three [states] it's pretty likely they'll go with at least a partially privatized version as Arkansas has instead of a "clean" expansion of Medicaid proper. Of course, as one Alabama-based advocate put it... Mississippi better not beat us to expand. — Jane Adams (@janeadamsid) February 16, 2024 Well, it looks like Ms. Adams may end up being disappointed... BREAKING: The Mississippi House just passed Medicaid expansion by a 96-20 vote. That's more than enough to overcome a veto from Gov. Tate Reeves. It now heads to the Senate. Background: https://t.co/exDyzFAcJX — Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) February 28, 2024 From the linked article in Pittman's tweet: Mississippi is one step closer to what would be a landmark shift in health care policy, with the Republican-led House preparing to debate expansion of Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands more residents in one of the poorest states in the U.S.