Mississippi Today is polling all 174 lawmakers on a measure to extend health care coverage for moms on Medicaid from two months to one year. Find where House and Senate members stand now. :
by Alex Rozier, Mississippi Today February 1, 2023 Mississippi Today is polling all 174 lawmakers on a measure to extend health care coverage for moms on Medicaid from two months to one year. Health care leaders say passing the postpartum Medicaid extension bill, as 28 other states have done and several others are considering, would save countless lives across Mississippi, which consistently ranks near last for maternal mortality and last for infant mortality.
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