Mississippi Group Floats 'Medicaid Reform' Plan to Woo Republicans [View all]

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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