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Mike Espy on Health Care
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Shore up rural hospitals; expand Medicaid
Medicaid and ensuring quality broadband access to every Mississippian. As your senator, I will continue to push for innovative solutions that support investment and development in our rural communities.
Quality, affordable health care and access to high-speed internet are desperately needed across the rural areas of our state, that's why my first two priorities in office will be to shore up our rural hospitals and health clinics by expanding
Source: 2020 Mississippi Senate campaign website EspyForSenate.com
, Jun 25, 2020
Number one priority will be to expand Medicaid
My number one priority in the Senate will be to expand Medicaid. By failing to expand Medicaid, Mississippi has willingly rejected $11.1 billion in federal funds over the last decade. The revenue from expansion is needed now more
than ever to undergird our rural hospitals, to fill the gap for uncompensated care, to address the long-term care crisis, and to be able to enroll an additional 210,000 uninsured Mississippians.
Source: 2020 Mississippi Senate campaign website EspyForSenate.com
, Jun 25, 2020
Expand mental healthcare; ObamaCare; and Medicaid
Q: Support or Repeal Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as ObamaCare?Mike Espy (D): Support. Protect while expanding mental health & prescription drug coverage & offering preventive services without cost-sharing.
Cindy Hyde-Smith (R):
Repeal ObamaCare. Help families afford health insurance coverage without expanding government role.
Chris McDaniel (R): Repeal. "I WILL support & vote for the full repeal of ObamaCare."
Q: Require people to work to receive Medicaid?
Mike Espy (D): No. "Mississippians should have full access." Expand funding of Medicaid & CHIP.
Cindy Hyde-Smith (R): Unclear. Support Farm Bill amendment adding a work requirement to
food stamp programs.
Chris McDaniel (R): Probable yes, though no Medicaid mention. "I WILL support & vote for work requirements for welfare recipients."
Source: 2018 CampusElect Guide on MS Senate Special Election
, Oct 9, 2018
Our farming, food, & health policies need to be aligned
Government programs that have benefitted those who grow food and those who process it haven't necessarily benefitted those who eat it, said Mike Espy, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture."We are eating ourselves to death," said Espy, who said
adults, including himself, don't easily grow out of lard-laced, sugar-spiked childhoods. One reason for this dietetic disaster, he said, is the fact that, in the United States "neither [farm policy nor food policy] has anything to do with health policy."
Source: U.Miss. Medical Center on 2018 MS Senate Special Election
, Sep 8, 2016
Espy opposes the CC survey question on healthcare mandate
The Christian Coalition Voter Guide inferred whether candidates agree or disagree with the statement, 'Repealing the Nationalized Health Care System that Forces Citizens to Buy Insurance '
Christian Coalition's self-description: "Christian Voter Guide is a clearing-house for traditional, pro-family voter guides. We do not create voter guides, nor do we interview or endorse candidates."
Source: Christian Coalition Surve 18CC-5 on Jul 1, 2018
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