State Republicans have balked at expanding Medicaid, but are embracing legislation that would take advantage of the federal program to pay for healthcare for very sick incarcerated people — and likely create a money-making opportunity for nursing homes.
Read MoreAll of Mississippi’s staff deaths from COVID-19 so far have involved for-profit nursing homes. Twice as many residents also caught the virus there, and nearly three times more died there, an analysis of health data by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting shows.
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