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July 9, 2008

State’s health officer to fight

The Clarion-Ledger, 7/9/8 The state Department of Health’s lab will have its license revoked for a year for violating federal protocol on lab tests – unless it wins an appeal. State Health Officer Dr. Ed Thompson is vowing to fight. Mississippi’s lab processes more than 600,000 specimens a year, including everything from suspected West Nile…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
July 9, 2008

Medicaid: Budget figures should add pressure

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 7/9/8 If Gov. Haley Barbour and state lawmakers didn’t already have pressure on them to find compromise for a $90 million shortfall in Medicaid funding, the state’s declining revenue estimate should add yet more. Despite spending thousands of taxpayer dollars for a special session called primarily to make up the Medicaid deficit,…