Medicaid expansion is a disaster for taxpayers, hospitals, and — most of all — the truly needy. Medicaid expansion would push nearly 6 million more people from private coverage to the public dole.

Mississippi is now one of less than a dozen states that haven’t in some fashion enlarged its Medicaid rolls. The others are Wyoming, Kansas, Texas, Wisconsin, Alabama, South Carolina and Florida.

As for Medicaid expansion, Hood said he felt confident he could get it passed if he followed the same route advocated by the Mississippi Hospital Association and Waller, though he noted he wasn ...