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January 11, 2017

Medicaid director asking for $75 million from #msleg

Medicaid underfunded to start year, director tells lawmakers JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi’s Medicaid director says there are straightforward reasons the program is requesting an additional $75 million to get through the final six months of the budget year. David Dzielak says legislators didn’t put enough money into Medicaid in the first place. Plus, it…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
January 11, 2017

#msleg leaders, Insurance Commissioner Chaney wait to see impact of any #Obamacare changes

Lawmakers discuss potential impact of an Obamacare change Many lawmakers didn’t have an answer to the question of how the uncertainty of Obamacare’s future will impact Mississippi. “We hear reports of block granting money to states which will mean the federal government will give us a set amount of money and we at that point…