Will Stribling
Digital Media Strategist at Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Mississippi made. Reporter at @MPBOnline.
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1 week ago |
mpbonline.org | Will Stribling
. While reviewing the budget for the state health department passed by the House, Senate leaders realized a $1.9 million appropriation to Methodist Rehabilitation Center in the bill violated federal rules and put over $1 billion in Medicaid funding at risk. Fixing that mistake and addressing concerns Senators had with other bills would’ve been possible had the House not ended its special session shortly after 1 a.m. Thursday morning.
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1 week ago |
mpbonline.org | Will Stribling
House Speaker Jason White responded to the forced delays by deciding not to allow questions about the bills to be asked before voting, further aggravating tensions between the two sides. “We’ll read bills or debate them,” White said. “We’re not going to do both.”At one point, White threatened to have Democratic Rep. Zakiya Summers of Jackson removed from the House chamber over her attempts to ask questions despite not being recognized by the chairmen presenting bills before a vote.
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2 weeks ago |
mpbonline.org | Will Stribling
That's because major reductions in federal Medicaid matching funds only apply to states that have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act or provide state-funded healthcare to undocumented immigrants.
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2 weeks ago |
mpbonline.org | Will Stribling
Mississippi has among the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the nation, and State Health Officer Dr. Daniel Edney says a lack of coordinated infrastructure is partially to blame. “Our maternal and infant mortality rates are not due to the fact that we have bad doctors, bad nurses, bad hospitals, it's because we have a bad system,” Edney said.
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2 weeks ago |
mpbonline.org | Will Stribling
Retiree and Jackson-native Carliss O'Banner was one of the attendees who's currently living with cardiovascular disease. What she calls "cardiac mishaps" are common in her family, but she thinks understanding heart health is also important for those who don’t carry similar risk factors. “It is affecting everybody, so that's why it's important to be educated on what's going on with yourself and what's going on with the disease in general,” O’Banner said.
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