From NBC News: In the Mississippi Delta, a hospital anchors its community. Now it’s in danger of closing.

 A consequence of Mississippi's refusal to accept federal funding for health care.

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. . . the hospital’s financial decline has taken place as Mississippi remains one of 11 states not to adopt Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. Economists have estimated that the first year of increased Medicaid eligibility would bring $1.6 billion in federal funds to the nation’s poorest state.