2018 Mississippi Senate Special Election: on Health Care

Chris McDaniel: I WILL support & vote for the full repeal of ObamaCare

Mike Espy (D): Support. Protect while expanding mental health & prescription drug coverage & offering preventive services without cost-sharing.

Cindy Hyde-Smith (R): Repeal ObamaCare. Help families afford health insurance coverage without expanding government role.

Chris McDaniel (R): Repeal. "I WILL support & vote for the full repeal of ObamaCare."

Mike Espy: Expand mental healthcare; ObamaCare; and Medicaid

Mike Espy (D): Support. Protect while expanding mental health & prescription drug coverage & offering preventive services without cost-sharing.

Cindy Hyde-Smith (R): Repeal ObamaCare. Help families afford health insurance coverage without expanding government role.

Chris McDaniel (R): Repeal. "I WILL support & vote for the full repeal of ObamaCare."

Q: Require people to work to receive Medicaid?

Mike Espy (D): No. "Mississippians should have full access." Expand funding of Medicaid & CHIP.

Cindy Hyde-Smith (R): Unclear. Support Farm Bill amendment adding a work requirement to food stamp programs.

Chris McDaniel (R): Probable yes, though no Medicaid mention. "I WILL support & vote for work requirements for welfare recipients."

Mike Espy: Our farming, food, & health policies need to be aligned

"We are eating ourselves to death," said Espy, who said adults, including himself, don't easily grow out of lard-laced, sugar-spiked childhoods. One reason for this dietetic disaster, he said, is the fact that, in the United States "neither [farm policy nor food policy] has anything to do with health policy."