Gov. Tate Reeves walks away when asked about working Mississippians who need health care

Gov. Tate Reeves has long struggled to justify his opposition to Medicaid expansion. Numerous economic experts say the expansion program would bring $1.5 billion in new revenue to Mississippi in year one, create more than 10,000 new jobs per year, and provide health insurance to at least 200,000 working Mississippians who can’t otherwise afford it. The financial benefits to the state, the economists project, would more than cover the state’s share of the expansion program’s costs. Forty other states, including numerous Republican-led ones, have expanded Medicaid to great success.