Quotes: Republicans debating Medicaid expansion share thoughts on key meeting day

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Quotes: Republicans debating Medicaid expansion share thoughts on key meeting day

House Republican leaders offered a compromise Medicaid expansion plan to Senate leaders in a much-anticipated conference committee meeting on Tuesday. Earlier this session, House leaders passed a full Medicaid expansion plan that would draw down roughly $1 billion a year in federal money, plus another $650 million over the first two years, and provide health insurance coverage to more than 200,000 Mississippians. A month later, however, the Sena…