October 1, 2012- Ricky Nobile
by Ricky Nobile Published: September 28,2012
Tags: Affordable Care Act, healthcare, Medicaid, Mississippi, Phil Bryant
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Read October 1 issue of MBJ
by MBJ Staff Published: September 28,2012
Tags: agritourism, Batman, But God Ministries, Dick Hall, economic development, Haiti, McRae's, MDOT, Medicaid, regionalism, Stan Buckley, Whole Foods
>> TRANSPORTATION Transportation commissioner Dick Hall on lonely campaign for better road maintenance— by Ted Carter Also in this week’s paper: >> MDOT Road commissioner open to options other than increasing pump prices— by Ted Carter >>RETAIL Whole Foods set to break ground in November— by Clay Chandler >> HEALTHCARE Analysis of Medicaid expansion under [...] [...]
Anti-Medicaid states: Earning $8,200 in Mississippi is too much
by Associated Press Published: August 14,2012
Tags: Barack Obama, Louisiana, Medicaid, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mitt Romney, South Carolina
MIAMI — Sandra Pico is poor, but not poor enough. She makes about $15,000 a year, supporting her daughter and unemployed husband. She thought she’d be able to get health insurance after the Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama’s health care law. Then she heard that her own governor won’t agree to the federal plan [...] [...]
Economist: Medicaid expansion must be examined
by Ted Carter Published: July 29,2012
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Bob Neal, health care, IHL, Institutes of Higher Learning, Medicaid, Phil Bryant
An analysis state economist Bob Neal says is the most important he has ever undertaken will help state leaders decide whether to accept billions in federal funding to cover a quarter-million or more Mississippians who lack health insurance. Though Neal views his analysis as critical to the decision before policy makers, it is uncertain how [...] [...]
Health Policy Center, medical groups study Medicaid expansion
by Ted Carter Published: July 15,2012
Tags: Center for Mississippi Health Policy, entitlements, health care, Medicaid, Mississippi Health Policy, University of Mississippi Medical Center, welfare
No one is entirely sure of the fiscal implications of either rejecting or accepting the federal government’s offer to help the state expand its Medicaid rolls to include about 250,000 uninsured adults, effectively cutting in half the number of uninsured Mississippians. The fiscal picture could come closer into focus in coming weeks as the Center [...] [...]
July 16, 2012- Chuck McIntosh
by Chuck McIntosh Published: July 13,2012
Tags: hospitals, Medicaid, Phil Bryant
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Read July 16 issue of MBJ
by MBJ Staff Published: July 13,2012
Tags: Brent's Drug Store, Grover Norquist, Health Policy Center, Jackson Showboats, Karl Rove, Kemper County, Medicaid, Mississippi Power Company
>> A LOSING PROPOSITION Mississippi hospitals face yearly $152M loss if Medicaid expansion rejected — By Ted Carter Also in this week’s paper: >> MEDICAID Health Policy Center, medical groups study Medicaid expansion— by Ted Carter >> ABORTION Fondren businesses tired of politically charged street corner by Stephen McDill >> CONSTRUCTION Kemper coal plant costs surge [...] [...]
Medicaid expansion rejection could cost Mississippi hospitals $152 million in annual losses
by Ted Carter Published: July 12,2012
Under the soon-to-be-enacted Affordable Health Care Act, Mississippi hospitals lose $152 million annually in federal money to help cover the cost of treating uninsured patients. The hundreds of millions of new federal dollars Mississippi would get through an expansion of Medicaid to a quarter-million uninsured adults had been seen as the way to offset the [...] [...]
U.S. Supreme Court upholds key part of Obama health law
by Associated Press Published: June 28,2012
Tags: Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan, healthcare, Medicaid, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Obama, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul. The decision means the huge overhaul, still only partly in effect, will proceed and pick up momentum over the next several years, affecting the way that countless Americans receive and pay for [...] [...]
Services dropped at Ocean Springs health office
by Associated Press Published: February 7,2012
Tags: Jackson County Board of Supervisors, Medicaid, Medicare, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Department of Health, Ocean Springs
OCEAN SPRINGS — The Mississippi Department of Health’s has suspended some services and cut hours at its office in Ocean Springs. The clinic no longer offers medical or environmental services. It is open Wednesdays and Thursdays only for WIC, the federally funded health and nutrition program for women, infants and children. Previously, the office offered [...] [...]
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