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Only a handful of Mississippi lawmakers say they outright oppose Medicaid expansion, a Mississippi Today survey found. And many of those lawmakers don't actually oppose it.

by Adam Ganucheau, Geoff Pender and Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today May 1, 2023 No Republican lawmaker in the Mississippi House or Senate voted in favor of Medicaid expansion when legislative Democrats forced votes on the issue during the recently completed 2023 session.

This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

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