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Medicaid ExpansionHow So Many Ignore Their Bleeding Neighbors
By Scott Stearman Newborns in 10 counties in Mississippi have a shorter life expectancy than newborns in Bangladesh. Please read that again and let the pain behind the numbers take hold in your heart. In this richest of nations, we have a beautiful, lush, prosperous state filled with generous, kind...
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HealthCOVID is also a mental health epidemic
Mental health and substance use challenges range from depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, addiction and more. Though some of these issues are? visible, many? can be harder to see when you?re not looking for them. In 2018, it was estimated that around 26 percent of those in the U.S. aged 18-25 and...
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AnalysisHealthy food, healthy children, healthy future
Thanks to a new policy, 250 high-poverty Mississippi schools are offering nutritious breakfast and lunch to all students at no charge.
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FeaturesMississippi’s unfilled prescription
The refusal to expand Medicaid means hundreds of thousands of Mississippians will remain without health insurance ? and healthcare providers will be forced to pick up the tab.
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AnalysisMississippi’s leaders thought welfare recipients were on drugs. They were wrong.
Mississippi has screened 5,578 TANF applicants for drug use since August. Only eight (0.14 percent) have tested positive.
By Matt Williams, Mississippi Center for Justice -
CommentaryOp-Ed: Toasting the demise of SB 2767
The bill, which would have prohibited abortions based on determinations of race or gender, played on disturbing stereotypes in yet another attempt to limit reproductive justice.
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CommentaryTo reduce unplanned pregnancies, focus on older teens and young adults
A 2014 law requires all of Mississippi's two- and four-year colleges to develop plans to address unplanned pregnancy on campus. This is a good start, but more needs to be done.
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AnalysisThese are the countries with lower infant mortality rates than Mississippi
Nearly 10 out of every 1,000 children do not survive their first year of life, making Mississippi one of the riskiest places to be born in the developed world.
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Analysis
Universal meal program is ending hunger in high-poverty schools (as long as they sign up)
28.7 percent of Mississippi children do not have consistent, dependable access to nutritious food at home. The high-poverty community eligibility provision has extended school meals to thousands more Mississippi students, but hundreds of eligible schools still have not signed up.
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FeaturesMedicaid expansion is a prescription that Mississippi needs to fill
Mississippi?s rejection of Medicaid expansion means that hundreds of thousands will remain without insurance ? and healthcare providers will be forced to pick up the tab.
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AnalysisThe Healthy Students Act has reduced obesity among white children. Why not anyone else?
In the state that ranks at the bottom for almost every health outcome, the Mississippi Healthy Students Act has been hailed as a big step forward in the battle against childhood obesity and chronic disease. But its success has masked growing racial disparities.
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AnalysisThe ACA offers working Mississippians a long-overdue raise. State leaders should embrace it.
The Affordable Care Act could correct an imbalance in the tax code and improve working Mississippians' financial security... if the state's leaders would just get out of the way.
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AnalysisOnly 6% of uninsured Mississippians have gotten covered through healthcare reform. What gives?
The rejection of Medicaid expansion and mistrust among the uninsured have depressed enrollment.
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CommentaryGov. Bryant’s embrace of telemedicine ignores the bigger picture
If Gov. Bryant was serious about improving treatment and prevention for diabetes, he would not have rejected the federal Medicaid expansion or banned local regulations on nutrition.
By Chris Aloia
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