Opinion | ‘Mississippi Health Care Is Broken’: Putting Politics Over Patients Harms All
Amy Bogue writes that legislators must work together to fully expand Medicaid to support Mississippi’s health-care providers, hospitals and patients.
Amy Bogue writes that legislators must work together to fully expand Medicaid to support Mississippi’s health-care providers, hospitals and patients.
LaWanda Dickens encourages Mississippians to vote in their best interest in today’s gubernatorial election.
Blake Case, an advisory board member of the LGBTQ Fund of Mississippi, writes that during this session, Mississippi legislators should focus on supporting transgender and nonbinary youth with needed resources instead of “targeting these young people with harmful legislation that will threaten their mental health.”
As in past years, no Medicaid expansion bill survived the legislative deadline for lawmakers to pass one out of committee. Within 24 hours of Reeves’ address, multiple Medicaid-expansion bills died, including Democratic and Republican-sponsored bills that would have allowed residents to vote on the issue in a referendum.
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said the state is “in a crisis mode here on the short term” when he addressed the problem of hospital closures at a Jan. 3, 2022, press conference.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, the state leader who is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, claimed during an interview with The Daily Signal that the pro-abortion rights side ignores the plight of women and children in poverty.
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