"Conservatives are telling elected leaders that expansion of Medicaid comes at a moral – or more overtly, a political – price. At what price are they willing to go back on years of proclaiming ‘socialized medicine’ as the slippery slope to ‘rationing of health care,’ ‘death panels’ and other claims far too gruesome to mention in polite company?"
- Ronnie MusgroveFormer Mississippi Governor Ronnie Musgrove is renowned for his perceptive political and healthcare policy observations. His remarks frequently capture the nuanced relationship between conservative ideology and practical political judgments. Musgrove was referring to the Medicaid expansion that took…