​Issues

health insurance

​...........the Republican opposition to Medicaid expansion, a decadelong obstinate attitude that has cost Mississippi about billion dollars a year, left a couple hundred thousand low-income workers uninsured and contributed to the dire financial condition of the state’s rural hospitals........Besides the GOP’s partisan antipathy to anything connected to former Democratic President Barack Obama, there is an ideological underpinning to this self-destructive opposition. It is a belief that government-based charity toward individuals, no matter in what form it is delivered, is generally a bad thing, creating a dependency that keeps the poor in poverty................It is this same belief that has led Mississippi to be one of the most miserly in the nation when it comes to food stamp allocations, unemployment assistance and other welfare payments  - Tim Kale; Columbian Progress ; Jan 6, 2023