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Federal law says insurers must cover outpatient mental health care. But Mississippi decides not for its state employees

Postpartum depression left Julie Seawright of Tupelo crying hysterically in her bathtub after the birth of her first child.

She turned to her state-employee insurance plan to cover out-patient treatment to see her through the crisis.

She was out of luck.

Louisiana expanded Medicaid by a Democratic governor’s executive order. Conservatives in the ‘ruby-red’ state have embraced it.

FRANKLIN, La. — As Mississippians struggle over the merits of Medicaid expansion, patients to the west in ruby-red Louisiana are already seeing the benefits after Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards implemented the program five years ago.

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