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Mississippi Cares: A solid solution to rural healthcare

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On Fri, 08/23/2019 - 03:20 PM

Vice President Pence, when he was Governor of Indiana, enacted a conservative brand of Medicaid reform for his state.

The Mississippi Hospital Association, at the request of Governor Bryant last fall, has worked to create a similar proposal – Mississippi Cares – for working Mississippians who need healthcare coverage.

Tailored to Mississippi

Mississippi Cares is NOT Obamacare. It’s PenceCare.

Our proposal stays true to conservative principles by offering a helping hand to low-income adults who are already helping themselves. It will also reduce the amount of services for which healthcare providers receive no payment.

Unlike Obamacare, Mississippi Cares requires plan members to pay premiums and co-payments.

Unlike Obamacare, it also requires plan members to either work or satisfy community engagement requirements such as education or job training.

Unlike Obamacare, plan members will have skin in the game and will be taking personal responsibility for their healthcare costs.

Unlike Obamacare, under this proposal, hospital investments and member payments fund the premiums for health plan coverage with no state funding required.

For Mississippians

Who would qualify?

Under current federal standards, single adults making just under $17,000 or adults in a family of four making just under $35,000 would qualify for coverage.

Two-thirds of those individuals are already working – they or their employer just can’t afford health insurance.

Two-thirds of those who work in small businesses with less than 50 employees do not have health insurance.

Mississippi has wonderful small businesses. They are the backbone of our small towns. Unfortunately, many of these small businesses are unable to provide health insurance to their employees.  People who are doing everything they can do to get ahead, shouldn’t put off getting the health care they need simply because they don’t have health insurance and access to preventive care.

Our hospitals are reaching a critical point. Mississippi hospitals provided over $600 million in uncompensated care last year.

Since 2011, five Mississippi hospitals have closed and at least six others have filed bankruptcy. According to recent reports by the State Auditor and a national health care advisor, Navigant, dozens of other Mississippi hospitals are at financial risk of closing.

When hospitals close, the communities around them begin a slow but sure decline. It’s impossible to name a thriving town that doesn’t have a hospital located nearby.  Without reform, more of our hospitals will close and eventually doctors will leave those small towns too.

A plan for our state

Vice President Pence in Indiana used a combination of plan member contributions and hospital taxes to pay for their state costs without any tax increase for Indiana taxpayers and that’s how we can do it in Mississippi.

And these taxes, when combined with the premiums paid by plan members, will cover the entire state cost of the program and allow for Mississippi to draw down 90-percent matching funds from the federal government – just like we do for emergency declarations, farm subsidies and countless other federal programs.

This 90-percent match will never decrease under current law. Anyone who says that this proposal will raise taxes on Mississippians or cost the state of Mississippi more money has either not taken the time to read the proposal or is being intentionally misleading.

Unlike Obamacare, Mississippi Cares will result in over $100 million in net revenue coming into the state general fund. That’s more than the state lottery and, unlike the lottery, our program will create tens of thousands of new jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in personal income.

 A path for our state

This proposal will provide better health for hundreds of thousands of working Mississippians who can’t afford health insurance, help our small businesses, and add over $100 million in new revenue to the state’s bottom line - revenue that can go towards teacher pay raises and improving roads and bridges.

If Mike Pence - the man President Trump trusts the most to lead our country in his place - created this program to support a healthier Indiana, then we can use his same conservative principles to build a healthier Mississippi

The numbers add up. Check them for yourself at MississippiCares.com.  

Timothy H. Moore

President/Chief Executive Officer

Mississippi Hospital Association

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