Democrats keep hammering Gov. Tate Reeves for refusing Medicaid expansion

For years, a cycle has repeated itself at the state Capitol: Democratic lawmakers file legislation to expand Medicaid coverage to additional Mississippians, Republican leaders kill those efforts and Democratic legislators cry foul. Across the state, voters keep reelecting the same Republicans to office who oppose Medicaid expansion. But the trio of legislators on Wednesday said if Presley, the Democrat challenging Reeves, defeats the incumbent and flips the Governor’s Mansion, then some of the GOP holdouts might come around to the idea of expansion. Sen. David Blount, D-Jackson, believes the coordinated message around expansion and the hospital crisis will be different this year and translate into actual results at the ballot box next month. Blount used previous legislative efforts to give poor mothers additional Medicaid benefits after they give birth as an example to show how the party’s constant push for additional benefits for vulnerable Mississippians can lead to actual results.