![]() ![]() Publicly, Bryant’s office is distancing the governor from Medicaid expansion discussions. ![]() “The governor’s trying to figure out how to expand Medicaid without calling it expansion,” said one source familiar with the discussions, speaking on background because of the sensitivity of the subject. Mike Pence required enrollees in expanded Medicaid to pay premiums and co-pays. According to a Mississippi Today report this week that first cited Bryant’s interest in Medicaid expansion, one of the states he’s eyeing is Indiana, which under then-Gov. Even Mississippi Democrats have largely dismissed it as politically unviable since a 2012 Supreme Court decision made the program optional for states.īryant has been exploring how the state could expand Medicaid to roughly 200,000 low-income adults with a conservative approach adopted in other red states. ![]() Until now, Medicaid expansion has largely been ignored in the Republican-dominated state, one of the sickest and the poorest in the country. ![]()
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