Jeffrey Hess
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Mississippi Consumers Try And Try Again To Use Healthcare.gov
In Mississippi, one of 36 states dependent on the federally run health insurance marketplace, consumers continue to face long delays and other technical difficulties.
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Political Fight Jeopardizes Mississippi’s Entire Medicaid Program
Democrats and Republicans in Mississippi are locked in a fight over the health law's Medicaid expansion that could threaten reauthorization of the state's Medicaid program -- and care for 700,000 residents.
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Miss. To Require Cord Blood Testing On Babies Born To Some Teenage Moms
The law is designed to identify older men who had sex with underage women.
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Wanted: Mavericks And Missionaries To Solve Mississippi’s Doc Shortage
Janie Guice, a recruiter for University of Mississippi's medical school, is looking for a few dedicated souls who are willing to commit to practicing in rural parts of the state, even in places without a Walmart.
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Mississippi Legislature Passes Abortion Clinic Bill
The bill will require any doctor performing abortions in the state to be a board-certified OB-GYN with admitting privileges at a local hospital, which could make staffing the state's sole abortion clinic very difficult.
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Mississippi Builds Insurance Exchange, Even As It Fights Health Law
Mississippi, a deeply red Southern state that is part of the Supreme Court case against the health law, is moving full speed ahead with one of the key provisions of that law: an online health insurance exchange.
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State GOP Pushes For ‘Abortion-Free’ Mississippi
Emboldened by the first Republican majorities in both chambers of the legislature since Reconstruction, anti-abortion advocates see a chance to limit abortion further and possibly ban it in Mississippi. Nearly two dozen anti-abortion bills have been introduced in the state legislature.
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