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Miss. forfeits $1M daily in Medicaid funds. Could they help the uninsured 77,000 battling mental illness?

By Shirley Smith

By not expanding Medicaid, Mississippi is hurting uninsured people with mental illness, many of whom often end up in jail or psychiatric wards, and putting medical providers at risk, some say. Others say expansion would only pump money into a broken mental health system.

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