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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Uninsured health-care ranks rising in Miss.
Clarion Ledger, July 2, 2009
(Mississippians) would like to see the expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program and Medicaid as a number of states have done, said Roy Mitchell, director of the Mississippi Health Advocacy Program.
Miss. Medicaid bill goes to Barbour
Clarion Ledger, July 1, 2009
Lawmakers sent a Medicaid reauthorization plan to Gov. Haley Barbour hours before the new fiscal year began today, along with dozens of other funding bills intended to keep state government running smoothly.
Mississippi lawmakers at Capitol for budget blitz
Hattiesburg American
Most parts of the budget are ready for votes in the House and Senate. But negotiators still have not resolved how to fund Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the needy.