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News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
January 29, 2018

Changes offered to Senate Medicaid “tech” bill adds reverse repealer and study committees

At the Medicaid hearing Monday, Senator Brice Wiggins, author of the Medicaid bill SB 2836, offered a committee substitute to the legislation. The committee substitute offers a revision of services, rates and managed-care conditions and extended repealer. It would authorize a study committee on managed care, after feedback from the Medicaid Advisory Committee still had…
News  |  Editor  • 
January 29, 2018

BIGGER PIE – How Do We Remove Corruption from Regulators?

A BPF View: How Do We Remove Corruption from Regulators? Two bills introduced this year would undo the consumer protection changes that were made more than a quarter-century ago after two Public Service Commissioners were convicted of extorting money from companies they regulated.  Read more regarding this in today’s Clarion Ledger. Those changes included the creation of…