Turning Mississippi’s health metrics around will be “very difficult” to do, authors of the report said in a media briefing Wednesday, without changing the larger, politically divisive policies.
Mississippi ranks worst overall in women’s health on new national scorecard by Sophia Paffenroth, Mississippi Today July 18, 2024 Mississippi ranks last in women’s health and reproductive care outcomes, according to a 2024 report released Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to independent research on health policy. The study’s authors pointed to the state’s lack of Medicaid expansion and strict abortion ban as two major causes.
“There are things delivery systems can do despite the policy choices Mississippi has made, but it is hard to do without the additional, in large part, resources – including Medicaid which would bring an influx of resources into the state were it to expand,” explained Sara Collins, the study’s lead author. Mississippi is one of only 10 states not to expand Medicaid in the decade since the Affordable Care Act made it an option for states.
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