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July 15, 2008

Group mulls legal challenge

The Sun Herald, 7/15/8 The Mississippi Hospital Association says it may ask the courts to block Gov. Haley Barbour’s plan to cut $375 million from the Medicaid program because the deep cuts could force some hospitals to close. Under Barbour’s plan, which takes effect Aug. 6, Medicaid-reimbursement rates for hospitals would be reduced by 33.5…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
July 15, 2008

Speaker of the House Billy McCoy

Speaker of the House Billy McCoy Most thought McCoy, a 65-year-old Democrat from Rienzi who survived cancer in the mid-1990’s, wouldn’t recover from diverticulitis, a digestive disease, and four bleeding strokes that threatened his life in 2004. He was hospitalized for weeks. But McCoy, alternately described by his colleagues as “steadfast” and “hard-headed,” said he…