The committee tasked with advising the Mississippi Division of Medicaid met Friday for the first time in a year and a half. ...

President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill, signed into law earlier this month, slashes social safety net programs that ...

If they only knew then what they know now. In hindsight, Mississippians who supported Medicaid expansion would have been ...

Lawmakers passed House Bill 539 in 2024, allowing for what’s called “presumptive care.” “If they are eligible from a ...

Don’t look now, but thanks to the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, health care, which by nearly every metric already is bad ...

It is reasonable to assume that in many ways, Jason White is still the person he was when he ran as a rural Democrat.

Joe Kennedy III, the grandson of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, says there is work to do in red states. He also has a few things ...

Mississippians who supported Medicaid expansion would have been better off had they accepted a work requirement in the 2024 legislative session.

Trump’s legislation will create more work requirements for parents to qualify for the SNAP program, which may decrease the number of students getting free school meals. That could have a domino effect ...

The situation is certainly better in Mississippi and Louisiana than it was in the 1960s, but critics say the Medicaid cuts could reverse hard-fought progress.