A recent poll told us what most people already knew and only a handful of state leaders truly fear: Expanding Medicaid to help bolster Mississippi’s suffering health care system is popular among voters.
The Mississippi Today/Siena College poll found that 66% of Mississippians support “lawmakers voting to accept federal funds to expand Medicaid.” That’s two-thirds of the state’s population. In an election, that would be what we call a landslide.
Given that Mississippi is one of the most conservative states in the nation, having two-thirds of the population supporting anything means it has to be bipartisan. That’s exactly what the poll showed. Eighty-two percent of Democrats were in favor, alongside 52% of Republicans.