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June 30, 2008

Bryan, Barbour on same side, for a change

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 6/29/8 Perhaps the most perplexing aspect of the current debate over how to fund a $90 million deficit in state funds for Medicaid is that Sen. Hob Bryan, D-Amory, and Gov. Haley Barbour are on the same side. Both oppose using a cigarette tax increase to fund the deficit; both…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
June 30, 2008

Barbour focuses on Medicaid

The Mississippi Press, 6/30/8 When Gov. Haley Barbour addressed the Mississippi Press Association Friday he had only one subject on his mind — Medicaid. The Republican governor vowed to make harsh cuts beginning next week in the health care program that provides 600,000 Mississippians — mainly elderly and children — with insurance coverage if legislators…