The organization is backing an option to expand health care access for Mississippians where 90% of funding would come from the federal government, and the remaining 10% required match would be funded by a self-tax paid by hospitals. They want the support for this plan from the state legislature. When you look at what happened when Medicaid was not expanded, the amount of hurt and pain, suffering, that occurred across Mississippi is not just a health issue that s a moral issue,
Bishop Ronnie Crudup, of New Horizon Church International,
said Wednesday, standing in the Capitol rotunda.
The timing is paramount as the pandemic has added an additional layer, leaving thousands of other Mississippians unemployed disproportionately affecting minorities and working poor. As a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill passed in Congress on Wednesday, and is headed to President Joe Biden to sign, Mississippians spearheading efforts of Medicaid expansion see this as an apt time to