Dispatches from Mississippi, the state with the worst outcomes, the poorest state, and the Blackest state.
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) November 21, 2022
Mississippi's largely white GOP leadership yearly refuses over $1 billion to expand Medicaid, provide care for 200k-300k working poor residents, and save rural hospitals. https://t.co/vMgR3D8pO4
Voters in Mississippi, where hospitals are shutting down due to lack of expansion, would have been able to vote to expand Medicaid last Tuesday.
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) November 15, 2022
But two days after the campaign to put it on the ballot began, the MS Supreme Court struck down our entire ballot initiative process. https://t.co/MxAetVLehg
Half of all the rural hospitals in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas are at risk of closing. Not expanding Medicaid has consequences. https://t.co/0NOdoNIoA0
— David States MD PhD (@statesdj) November 21, 2022
Top economists have forecasted Mississippi would receive $1.61 billion in federal funds for the first year of Medicaid expansion, which would have immense economic growth for the state of Mississippi. But state leaders continue to reject expansion. https://t.co/aPEQHy08BO
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) November 19, 2022
The highest infant mortality rates (death under 1 yo).
— uché blackstock, md (@uche_blackstock) June 25, 2022
Above average maternal mortality rates (& the average is already too high).
1 of 12 states that never expanded Medicaid.
Lowest healthcare provider-to-resident ratio.
Highest percentage of Black residents.
Mississippi.
“The only hospital we’ve got is on its deathbed.”
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 20, 2022
A rural hospital in the Mississippi Delta is struggling to keep its doors open as cash reserves plummet and patient traffic slows. https://t.co/aPomZwTwRk
