. >> reporter: richard roberson is an official with mississippi's medicaid office.hough the federal government will pick up most of the tab for expanding medicaid, roberson says the cost to mississippi's taxpayers will still be enormous. >> we're estimating through 2020 is about $1.6-$1.7 billion coming from the state. >> reporter: and can mississippi handle that? >> that's going to be the challenge. >> reporter: mississippi's leaders say they prefer tort reform and cutting waste in medicaid as a way to bring health care to more people. >> mississippi is essentially a benchmark for health care reform. >> reporter: critics of governor barbour, such as roy mitchell of the mississippi health advocacy program, fear mississippi's republican leadership will try to sabotage the implementation of health care reform through foot-dragging and backpedaling. >> what we should be doing is working to implement programs that expand coverage rather than being on the defense all the time. i think you could say that health care reform is not successful in this whole nation if it's no

. >> reporter: richard roberson is an official with mississippi's medicaid office.hough the federal government will pick up most of the tab for expanding medicaid, roberson says the cost to mississippi's taxpayers will still be enormous. >> we're estimating through 2020 is about $1.6-$1.7 billion coming from the state. >> reporter: and can mississippi handle that? >> that's going to be the challenge. >> reporter: mississippi's leaders say they prefer tort reform and cutting waste in medicaid as a way to bring health care to more people. >> mississippi is essentially a benchmark for health care reform. >> reporter: critics of governor barbour, such as roy mitchell of the mississippi health advocacy program, fear mississippi's republican leadership will try to sabotage the implementation of health care reform through foot-dragging and backpedaling. >> what we should be doing is working to implement programs that expand coverage rather than being on the defense all the time. i think you could say that health care reform is not successful in this whole nation if it's no

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