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.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem gives the State of the State address, Jan. 10, 2023, at the state Capitol in Pierre, S.D.
Deep-red Mississippi on Tuesday became the latest state to require Medicaid to provide a full year of coverage for low-income mothers after giving birth. Days earlier, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves declared the policy was part of the state’s “new pro-life agenda.” The Biden administration is encouraging all states to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage to a full year, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said in a statement.
“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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