GOP Senate Majority Leader O’Laughlin, who prior to now would not have expanded welfare, said without Medicaid, the 'person that might suffer the most would be the child or the children.” More GOP states are supporting Medicaid coverage for new moms:
WASHINGTON — After years of refusing to expand Medicaid benefits for new moms, Republican officials in more than a half-dozen states are now reversing course and trumpeting that coverage as central to their conservative, anti-abortion agenda.
Extended postpartum coverage had been rejected three times by the state’s lawmakers since 2021 but a push for the measure succeeded after most abortions became illegal in Mississippi, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling. “Postpartum care is crucial for the health and wellbeing of women, and can have benefits for their babies and their growing families," she said. “In addition to comprehensive pregnancy and postpartum care, reproductive health care is essential to support the health of women and families.”
“A lot of those maternal deaths occur after this period when pregnancy Medicaid coverage ends," Wherry said. “There are a number of different ways that expanding coverage could effect women and their health outcomes and their mortality outcomes.” Wisconsin's Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' proposed a budget last month that would extend the postpartum coverage period to a year, but the Republican-controlled Legislature has expressed little interest in supporting the plan.South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican who has long opposed expanding the income eligibility threshold for Medicaid to those who make up to $18,800 annually, announced in February that she'd seek to extend the postpartum Medicaid coverage period to 12 months.
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