Barbour Takes On Obama’s Medicaid Expansion, Health Overhaul
The Boston Globe: Amid Strained Clinics, Foe Assails 'Obamacare'The plight of health care's have-nots is vividly illustrated alongside a highway on the outskirts of Yazoo City, the hometown of Mississippi governor and potential Republican presidential candidate Haley Barbour. Tucked into a crumbling strip mall with a dollar store called Dirt Cheap, a bare-bones clinic with a peeling facade serves dozens of impoverished patients daily. ... But while many of the clinic's patients stand to gain insurance and access to better health care under the national overhaul signed last year by President Obama, Barbour says Mississippi does not want the help. Instead, his calls to throw out the overhaul and the massive expansion of Medicaid at the core of the law are becoming the centerpiece of his emerging candidacy. Barbour's view: It's costly big government at its worst (Rowland, 4/20). This is part of the Morning Briefing, a summary of health policy coverage from major news organizations. Sign up for an email subscription.