Mississippi PLAD participants play waiting game over Medicaid
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JACKSON, Miss. - Before she suffered a stroke and died, Ruth Grant was worried about losing her Medicaid benefits, her husband says.
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DES MOINES, Iowa A mass mailing is under way nationwide to get Medicare-approved drug discount cards to low-income seniors. Officials say they targeted because they fall into an income bracket that makes them
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WASHINGTON Nov 10, 2004 - Women seeking abortions in Mississippi must first sign a form indicating they&#39;ve been told abortion can increase their risk of breast cancer.
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Thousands of low-income Coloradans are waiting for food stamps, Medicaid and other benefits as officials fall behind in processing claims with the state's new &#36;200 million welfare computer system.
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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- Elderly Americans waiting for a flu shot should be patient -- more is on the way. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson delivered the message Friday afternoon in West Des Moines.
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Nearly one of every seven Michigan residents is eligible for Medicaid, the state&#39;s primary health care safety net for the poor and uninsured.
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People who must pay for insurance may now be a majority of the stateâs uninsured, and not all are rushing to get coverage.
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CHICOPEE -- Beverly Ann Pise, still recovering from a painful kidney condition, stuffs newspapers into plastic bags and piles them on her living room floor before heading out on an 18-mile delivery route. Even though it's her second job, her goal looks unattainable: whittling down her growing medical debt.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 19 -- Louisiana lags behind Mississippi in forwarding federal aid to cash-strapped communities after Hurricane Katrina, lending support to complaints by local officials in the New Orleans area that the state is holding up money they need for repairs and rebuilding.
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WASHINGTON -- Millions of Medicaid patients and their pharmacists could be in for a nasty surprise Oct. 1.
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Advocates for the poor are criticizing Tennessee&#39;s plan to curtail its supplemental Medicaid program, including raising premiums and requiring doctors to use the cheapest alternatives for treatment.
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 10--GULFPORT -- Harrison County supervisors are considering strapping ankle monitoring devices on pretrial, nonviolent inmates and sending them back on the streets as a way to combat jail overcrowding.
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Advocates for the mentally ill are trying to secure voting rights while concern mounts about the risks of voting by people with conditions like dementia.
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The program is apparently in Tennessee&#39;s future because Gov. Bredesen plans to scrap TennCare to save money. [ TennCare to dissolve ]. It&#39;s been 10 years since Tennessee ran a Medicaid program.
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Lawmakers trying to get elected push last-minute bills to help constituents, from hurricane relief to tobacco buyouts.
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Advocates for the mental ill are trying to secure voting rights while concern mounts about the risks of voting by people with conditions like dementia.