Mississippi Today

By: Larrison Campbell

For months, Mississippi’s application for a program that would require certain Medicaid recipients to work has been considered a lock by supporters and opponents of the program.

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Last month, Georgetown University released a detailed report on the effects of these work requirements to Medicaid beneficiaries. Joan Alker, executive director for the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown, acknowledged that approval wasn’t guaranteed for work requirement waivers in states that didn’t expand Medicaid. But she said that Mississippi’s application was closer to approval than any other application from a non-expansion state. “Mississippi’s proposal has been through the state and federal public comment process. Mississippi is ahead of Alabama in the queue and the key one to watch,” Alker said.

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