Jonathan Smith of Amory, spoke of medical bills that left him bankrupt after a series of health problems. He joined members of the health care community expressing a desire to have Medicaid expansion placed on the 2022 ballot. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
Jonathan Smith of Amory was on Christmas break from his job as a forklift operator in 2017 when he thought he was having a stroke.
Doctors instead found a brain tumor, then determined he had a rare cancer of the nervous system.