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Fight over Medicaid funding set to continue next year.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 15-DEC-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Fight over Medicaid funding set to continue next year.(Healthcare Mississippi)

Article Excerpt
One of the most acute disagreements of the 2008 legislative session figures to emerge again when lawmakers convene next month.

It took a regular session and a special session that lasted nearly the whole summer before there was a resolution to fund the state's $90-million Medicaid obligation.

The House of Representatives, led by Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, favored an increase on the state's tobacco tax to pay the tab. The Senate, spurred by Republicans Gov. Haley Barbour and Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant, presented a plan that would have increased the fees Medicaid providers paid. That plan...

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