Medicaid Expansion in Mississippi Testimony
Testimony of Ed Sivak: Hope Enterprise Corporation and Mississippi Economic Policy Center (MEPC)Before the Joint Meeting of the Senate Public Health and Insurance Committees on “Medicaid Expansion”
Medicaid Expansion is a Good Deal
• Creates over 9,000 jobs • Connects 310,000 Mississippians to health insurance
Not Expanding Medicaid is harmful
• Hospitals will need to layoff staff and cut services • Puts Mississippi at a competitive disadvantage
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