Mississippi lawmakers expected to vote on Medicaid expansion plan with work requirement
Time:2024-05-22 02:08:07 Source:businessViews(143)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers are expected to vote this week on a proposal that would expand Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands more people, but it includes a work requirement that might not win federal approval.
The state House and Senate passed separate expansion plans earlier this year. With the four-month legislative session pushing into its final days, negotiators from the two chambers submitted a compromise moments before a Monday night deadline. They declined to answer questions after emerging from a closed-door meeting, but the proposal was filed in legislative clerks’ offices.
The plan would require the new Medicaid recipients to be employed at least 100 hours a month in a job that does not provide private health insurance. Or, they could fit into other categories, such as being a fulltime student or the parent of a child younger than 6.
You may also like
- Auburn running back Brian Battie on ventilator after weekend shooting in Florida, coach says
- Raleigh's 9th inning homer gives Mariners 5
- 1 dead, 6 wounded in Birmingham, Alabama, shooting, police say
- Why Airbus is staying humble even as Boeing flounders
- Tom Brady and Jay
- Why Airbus is staying humble even as Boeing flounders
- $400 million boost in federal funds for security at places of worship
- JAN MOIR: Is Basil goose stepping in front of Germans still funny? Of course it bloody is!
- Padres second baseman Xander Bogaerts leaves game against Braves with shoulder injury