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JACKSON • After Mississippi s Republican-controlled Legislature again refused to seriously consider Medicaid expansion this year, a new nonprofit says it s time for voters to decide. The group of state health leaders filed paperwork in February for a Medicaid expansion ballot initiative. If Initiative 76 is approved, it would tap into billions of dollars worth of federal health care insurance money over the next several years. Those funds would be used to cover possibly hundreds of thousands of working, low-income Mississippians who cannot afford health care. Mississippi Today first reported Monday on the existence of the initiative effort. Mississippi is one of 12 states that have refused to accept Medicaid expansion money dating back to 2014. Advocates estimate the state has missed out on roughly $1 billion per year since.

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