(Red) States that declined the medicaid expansion are having to shut the doors to the hospitals that server largely poorer areas.
The MS governor would rather cut taxes than help the poor. They have a surplus budget. Is he a Christian, btw?
The governor says the state’s $3.9 billion surplus would be best used to help eliminate Mississippi’s income tax.
Dr. Daniel P. Edney, the state’s top health officer, said he did not set Medicaid policy, and he has been careful not to take sides. But he predicted emerging health care deserts where women would have to travel long distances to deliver babies and more sick people would die because they could not gain access to care.
Of the state’s hospitals, “I have maybe heard of two that are generating any profit,” he said. When he asks hospital executives if Medicaid expansion would help their balance sheets, he said, “they say it’s a game changer.”
He predicted that five hospitals would soon downgrade into mere emergency rooms, where doctors work to stabilize patients, then transfer them to the nearest hospital.
If that happens, some of the sickest will not make it, said Dr. Jeff Moses, an emergency room physician at Greenwood Leflore.
Is this Making America Great Again? I guess so, if "great" means killing of the poor.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/going-away-state-choice-forgo-123838029.html