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September 26, 2007

Kids’ health care on the bubble

The Sun Herald, 9/26/7 A popular children’s insurance plan for lower-income families survived another day on its run through the gauntlet, as the U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday to infuse $35 billion into the jeopardized program. The State Children’s Health Insurance Plan, also called SCHIP, covers 63,000 Mississippi children whose working parents cannot afford…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 26, 2007

Miss. health department seeks significant jump in state funding

The Sun Herald, 9/25/7 The interim state health officer, Dr. Ed Thompson, told lawmakers Monday that the Department of Health needs more nurses and disease investigators to tackle some of its toughest public health problems. “We simply don’t have enough basic, front-line public health workers,” said Thompson, who has led the department since early July.…