Wyatt Emmerich: Hold on to your pocketbook!
The LEGISLATURE is in session. Hold on to your pocketbook! So goes the old saying.
Mississippi Senate rejects 2 proposals to expand Medicaid
The Mississippi Senate on Tuesday rejected two proposals to expand Medicaid to people who work low-wage jobs that don’t provide private health insurance.
After victories, Medicaid expansion revisited in state
After voters expanded Medicaid in conservative states like Missouri and Oklahoma, health care advocates are renewing a push for expansion in Mississippi and other Southern states where Republican leaders have long been opposed.
Medicaid reform: Will GOP embrace expansion by another name?
Call it Medicaid reform, not Medicaid expansion.
Mississippi Medicaid won’t seek midyear infusion of money
Mississippi’s Medicaid director said Wednesday that the program will not seek additional money for the final half of the state budget year. This is the first time that has happened in the past five years.
Mississippi could see push-pull on Medicaid expansion
Just as the leader of Mississippi’s Medicaid program cracked open the door Monday to the idea of expanding health coverage to some of the state’s uninsured residents, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves seemed to slam it shut.
Slimantics: Medicaid expansion under any name is a ‘pretty good deal’
Earlier this month, the Lowndes County Board of supervisors authorized county engineer Bob Calvert to submit three road/bridge projects to the state for funding under the state’s new emergency roads/bridges fund.
Medicaid expansion becomes key issue in GOP-leaning states
For nearly a decade, opposition to former President Barack Obama’s health care law has been a winning message for Nebraska Republicans.
Kentucky cuts vision, dental care for up to 460,000 people
Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration cut dental and vision coverage for as many as 460,000 Kentuckians after his Medicaid overhaul plan was rejected in court.
Report: 20,000 parents to lose Medicaid in work proposal
An estimated 20,000 poor parents in Mississippi will lose health coverage over five years under a proposal requiring Medicaid recipients work for their benefits, researchers at Georgetown University reported.
Amid partisan split, Medicaid plan passes Mississippi Senate
A proposal to keep Mississippi’s Medicaid program alive is moving ahead in the Legislature, but some Democrats are concerned that the Republican administration could try to deeply cut costs.
Mississippi Senate plan steps back from Medicaid changes
A key state senator is backing off plans to change Mississippi’s state-federal Medicaid program.
Medicaid recipients sue to block new work-requirement rules
Fifteen people in Kentucky who get their health insurance through Medicaid have sued the federal government, asking a judge to block new first-in-the-nation rules that would make them work to keep their taxpayer-funded benefits.
Medicaid work mandate: Common sense reform or unfair burden?
Republicans this past week began to realize their long-held goal of requiring certain adults to work, get job training or perform community service in exchange for getting health coverage through Medicaid.
Kentucky is first to get OK for Medicaid work requirement
Kentucky has become the first state to require many of its Medicaid recipients to work to receive coverage, part of an unprecedented change to the nation’s largest health insurance program under the Trump administration.
Trump work requirement rewrites health care rules for poor
Rewriting the rules on health care for the poor, the Trump administration said Thursday it will allow states to require “able-bodied” Medicaid recipients to work, a hotly debated first in the program’s half-century history.
AP Exclusive: Poor health and high expectations for Medicaid
People on Medicaid are more prone to smoke, struggle with depression and obesity, or rate their own health as fair or poor. But that’s not the whole story.
Mississippi seeks OK for job training for some on Medicaid
Mississippi is seeking federal permission to require job training for some able-bodied adults who receive Medicaid, and the Trump administration has signaled that is open to approving such plans.
New life for Medicaid after GOP’s health care debacle
It may not equal Social Security and Medicare as a “third rail” program that politicians touch at their own risk, yet Medicaid seems to have gotten stronger after the Republican failure to pass health care legislation.
‘Mississippi First’: Medicaid in the Golden Triangle
Prior to September 2016, Fred Williams was missing out. He couldn’t play catch with his 4-year-old son, Fredrick Jr. He wasn’t able to mow his own yard. And each of the six days a week he worked, he had trouble breathing, often having to take short breaks throughout the day to sit and catch his breath.