Fewer Miss. docs accepting Medicaid payments
Fewer than half of Mississippi’s primary care doctors are taking new Medicaid patients, Mississippi State University researchers say.
Lawmakers seek agreement on clinic grants
The Mississippi House and Senate will attempt to work out their differences on a proposal to expand state subsidies to health clinics.
Black Caucus cites Medicaid as unaddressed issue
Medicaid expansion is one of the biggest issues Mississippi lawmakers are failing to address this year, the chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus said Monday.
Miss. House rejects proposal to expand Medicaid
The Mississippi House voted Thursday against expanding Medicaid to more than 230,000 uninsured working poor residents.
Mississippi House moves forward with money for health clinics
The Republican-led Mississippi House voted Monday to give $4.8 million of state money to health clinics that provide primary care for low-income patients, but Democrats criticized the proposal as a minuscule effort compared to the federal dollars Mississippi could collect by expanding Medicaid.
Miss. House seeks to end self-destruct switch
A figurative self-destruct switch is turned on at many state agencies in Mississippi.
No time bombs are ticking in the office buildings that overlook the Capitol. But laws that authorize many agencies specify a date that the law will be repealed and the agency will cease to exist.
Bentley defends decision not to expand Medicaid
Gov. Robert Bentley began the election-year session of the Alabama Legislature by defending his decision not to expand the state Medicaid program and by presenting better education and more jobs as the best strategy for escaping poverty.
Expansion of Mississippi Medicaid unlikely in 2014
Mississippi lawmakers appear unlikely to do an about-face and vote to expand Medicaid this year.
Medicaid growth creates gap of 5M without coverage
About 5 million people will be without health care next year that they would have gotten simply if they lived somewhere else in America.
Study: Medicaid expansion would spur Miss. economy
Mississippi is losing billions of dollars in potential economic activity because state leaders, so far, have chosen not to extend Medicaid to hundreds of thousands more people, a nonprofit group said a report Thursday.
Obamacare enrollment low; Democrats unhappy
WASHINGTON — Add simmering Democratic discontent to the problems plaguing “Obamacare,” now that first-month enrollment figures are out. The White House is rushing to come
Health insurance marketplace set to open in Miss.
Beginning Tuesday, some Mississippians can sign up for new health insurance policies on the state’s federally-run health insurance marketplace.
Miss. premiums among highest in health exchange
Mississippi is one of the poorest and unhealthiest states in the nation, and its residents will face some of the highest premiums under a health insurance exchange, an online marketplace that will be run by the federal government.
Patient’s bill soars as health law program falters
WASHINGTON — Coping with advanced cancer, Bev Veals was in the hospital for chemo this summer when she got a call that her health plan
Study: Half who now buy own health plan to get aid
WASHINGTON — About half the people who now buy their own health insurance — and potentially would face higher premiums next year under President Barack
New health insurance markets: Not like Travelocity or Amazon
WASHINGTON — You may have heard that shopping for health insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul will be like using Travelocity or Amazon.
Obama extols health care law amid public doubts
WASHINGTON — Facing public doubts and embarrassing setbacks to his signature health care law, President Barack Obama stepped forward Thursday to extol the program’s benefits,
Health law’s rule delay could hamper enforcement
There’s a bit of a domino effect undercutting President Barack Obama’s health care law.
Enforcement of the overhaul’s central mandate — that individual Americans must have coverage — could be weakened by the Obama administration’s recent delay of a requirement that larger employers provide medical insurance.
Q&A for the latest health law fight: Battle of mandates
WASHINGTON — If businesses get an extra year to meet a new health care mandate, why not everybody else? Republicans, seizing on the White House
A break for smokers? Glitch may limit penalties
WASHINGTON — Some smokers trying to get coverage next year under President Barack Obama’s health care law may get a break from tobacco-use penalties that