Quotes: Republicans debating Medicaid expansion share thoughts on key meeting day

House Republican leaders offered a compromise Medicaid expansion plan to Senate leaders in a much-anticipated conference committee meeting on Tuesday.Earlier this session, House leaders passed a full Medicaid expansion plan that would draw down roughly $1 billion a year in federal money, plus another $650 million over the first two years, and provide health insurance coverage to more than 200,000 Mississippians.A month later, however, the Senate passed its own plan that would forgo the extra fe