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Mississippi Department of Insurance Holds Town Meetings
Posted Thursday, June 16, 2011
Beginning Monday, June 20th, the Mississippi Insurance Department will begin hosting statewide town hall meetings on the creation of Mississippi’s Health Insurance Exchange.
Republican governors move ahead on health exchanges
May 29, 2011 - Politico
A small but growing number of prominent, Republican governors — including Mitch Daniels and Haley Barbour — are taking the lead to shape a key component of the health care overhaul their party fought so hard to kill.
Americans want to “keep Medicaid as it is”
May 25, 2011 - Reuters
More than half of Americans do not want Medicaid funding cut and are skeptical of changing how the federal government funds the healthcare program for the poor, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey released on Wednesday.
Mississippi lawmakers differ on federal budget issues
May 23, 2011 - Mississippi Press
Will balancing the federal budget be a difficult, harrowing procedure like chemotherapy? Or can Congress fix its trillion-dollar deficits with a few well-placed bandages, inflicting little pain on American citizens?
Mississippi lawmakers can’t seem to agree.
Affordable Care Act Offers Recent Graduates More Choices
Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2011
It’s graduation season here in Mississippi, and the promise of a new beginning for young adults is exciting. But for some, it’s a little frightening. In an unstable economy, many graduates fear that they will not be able to find a job and may believe that they won’t have health insurance either. Yet, the Affordable Care Act (health care reform) now allows college graduates to have the option of getting coverage through their parents’ health insurance plan.
HHS Secretary Sebelius Offers Barbour Emergency Federal Medicaid Support
Posted Monday, May 09, 2011
With imminent flooding of many Mississippi Delta counties and the recent significant loss of life and property due to last month’s horrific tornados, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has offered Governor Haley Barbour several options to speed Medicaid eligibility for those who may desperately need health services.
States turn to work-arounds on health insurance exchanges
Politico - May 3, 2011
State governments across the country are exploring workarounds to get health exchanges up and running as Republican legislators and tea party protests have blocked state laws to implement this piece of health reform.
The sad state of American kids’ food environments
Time - April 28, 2011
Nearly half of all American children and teens are overweight or obese, according to government statistics, and a large part of the problem may be lack of access to healthy foods in kids’ environments
Governor nixes obesity council
The Clarion Ledger - April 27, 2011
Mississippi is the most obese state in the nation, but Republican Gov. Haley Barbour says it doesn’t need another layer of bureaucracy to study the issue.
Barbour signs last bills into law
The Clarion Ledger - April 30, 2011
Most were appropriations bills, but also signed into law was a bill that creates a committee to study areas of the state that are underserved in the availability of healthy foods.