Mississippi Group Floats 'Medicaid Reform' Plan to Woo Republicans
JACKSON—Mississippi Hospital Association board members stood statuesque behind Timothy Moore, the president and chief executive officer of MHA, in the capitol rotunda on Monday as he painted a picture of what it might be like to be uninsured and poor.
"Yesterday was Mother's Day—let's use that as an example. Put yourself in a position of a young mother of three," Moore said,teaching preschool. She gets sick. She has a decision to make: Am I going to pay for treatment, go see the doctor, or am I going to buy groceries this week?"
During the press conference, MHA unveiled a proposal called "Mississippi Cares" that, like Medicaid expansion, would insure around 300,000 more adults in the state, ages 19-64 who earn up to 138% of the federal poverty level.
"This is not Medicaid expansion. This is Medicaid reform," Moore told the audience.
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