Numerous Mississippi Christian leaders are using biblical scripture to guide their advocacy for Medicaid expansion this legislative session.
The Christian argument for Medicaid expansion by Adam Ganucheau, Mississippi Today April 8, 2024 Note: This editorial anchored Mississippi Today’s weekly legislative newsletter. Subscribe to our free newsletter for exclusive access to legislative analysis and up-to-date information about what’s happening under the Capitol dome. The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Jackson is glued to the legislative debate over Medicaid expansion.
Negotiations begin: Where do House, Senate, governor stand on Medicaid expansion? Is there room for compromise? I wanted to hear Kopacz’s thoughts about Medicaid expansion for a few reasons. First, he and others at the diocese have been front-and-center as a coalition of faith leaders work to get expansion — long believed to be a pipe dream in conservative Mississippi — across the finish line this session.
Senate passes pared-down Medicaid expansion plan with veto-proof majority Kopacz, ever humble and mild-mannered, declined to speak directly about Hosemann and Blackwell during our interview. But he did speak very specifically about aspects of the two Senate leaders’ plan. “The work requirement could make this unnecessarily insurmountable,” Kopacz said. “It would be really unfair and unjust not to be able to move this plan forward because of too rigid of an approach to work.
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