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‘The life and breath of communities’: Hospital leaders say Medicaid expansion still needed
Gov. Tate Reeves’ Medicaid payment changes, pitched during the eleventh-hour of a heated reelection campaign and his only major health plan during his first four years as governor, delivered $658.2 million to hospitals in January. Hospital leaders say the influx of federal money is a lifeline, but it’s not enough to forgo Medicaid expansion – a long-term solution that would insure hundreds of thousands of working poor people in one of the country’s sickest states. Quentin Whitwell owns four hospitals in rural Mississippi. He knows intimately the struggles they face. While the extra federal money Reeves secured is helpful, he said, expansion would go further.  “There is no reason to

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