Welcome. MHAP promotes health system change by developing innovative health and human services policy and monitoring implementation. The program also provides information and support to front-line workers and poor communities as they work to address problems at the local level. Mississippi Health Advocacy Programs (MHAP) combines research, analysis and grass-roots organizing to improve health policies, practices and funding in Mississippi, especially in support of the state's poor and under served people.
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Obama Budget Increases Federal Contribution To Medicaid By $25 Billion
Think Progress
The administration’s FY 2011 budget invests $25.5 billion into a 6-month extension of “the help that states got in last year’s economic stimulus bill with their Medicaid programs,” increasing the federal contribution by 6.2%. States with higher unemployment rates would qualify for more aid.
Clarksdale lawmaker seeks tax on sugary drinks to fight obesity
Commercial Appeal, January 11, 2010
“I’m fiscally conservative as a Republican, but when I look at how we spend $982 million a year on obesity and about $589 million of that is Medicare and Medicaid, it means people are paying $400 million a year out of their pockets,” Johnson said. “So you can imagine how much lower our insurance premiums would be if we could get this obesity under control.”
Uninsured carry a heavy burden
Daily Journal
“Private coverage is just eroding under the current system,” said Roy Mitchell, executive director of the Mississippi Health Advocacy Program. The real costs start adding up with chronic health conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity. “They need preventive treatment, but both of those things can be used as pre-existing conditions that can be denied coverage,” Mitchell said.