JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Medicaid expansion plan endorsed by leaders in the Republican-led Mississippi Legislature could struggle for bipartisan support because it includes a work requirement that is ...

Another legislative session, another year will pass without Mississippi expanding Medicaid to provide health care coverage for the working poor. States have had the option since 2014 to expand ...

A new Mississippi law will allow earlier Medicaid coverage for pregnant women in an effort to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies in a poor state with the nation’s worst rate of infant ...

Newly pregnant women who aren't on Medicaid or who do not have health insurance in Mississippi are still stuck in a coverage hole that the Legislature tried to close this past session. A new Medicaid ...

The state's Republican-led House is expected to vote on Mississippi Medicaid expansion as soon as Wednesday after a committee unanimously approved it Tuesday. The morning after Gov. Tate Reeves didn't ...

April Hines has battled with her weight since she was a teenager. But in the past couple of years, she’s fallen from 600 pounds to 385, and her blood pressure and blood sugar levels are down, too.