Mississippi
Health Policy rankings
| Health indicators | Rank |
| Population | 2,855,104 |
| Number of insurance mandates | 29 |
| Death rate per 100,000 | 998.2 |
| Percent of adults overweight or obese | 64.90% |
| Percent of adults who have visited a dentist in the last 12 months | 59.40% |
| Number of births (2004) | 42,827 |
| Ranking public policy | Rank |
| Overall health ownership rank | 28 |
| Government health care rank | 24 |
| Private health insurance rank | 22 |
| Medical tort rank | 28 |
| Provider burden of regulation rank | 34 |
Sources
*Policy ranks are from the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, published by the Pacific Research Institute.
*Health indicators are from State Health Facts, a service of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
*Number of insurance mandates comes from Health Insurance Mandates in the States 2007 (PDF), a publication of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008No-Audit Medicaid?By John LaPlanteCategories: Medicaid, MississippiWelfare-rights activists are calling on Mississippi to drop a requirement that people on Medicaid have the face-to-face interview requirement. Currently, the interview is required for certifying that the person is still eligible. Opponents of the interviews say that they simply keep qualified people away from getting services they need and do nothing to detect fraud.
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Monday, April 21, 2008Medicaid Money in MississippiBy John LaPlanteCategories: Medicaid, MississippiThe Mississippi Legislature is looking at a special session to address a deficit in the state's Medicaid program. The leading options are variations on a theme: increase the cigarette tax (a few people) or tax hospitals (in effect, everyone). On its editorial page, meanwhile, the Clarion-Ledger blasts the Legislature and governor for not coming to an agreement earlier, saying that a special session will cost taxpayers. Mississippi is a poster child for the problems brought about by the federal match. Its federal match rate is the highest of the states (that is, it spends money on Medicaid and then gets a generous match from federal taxpayers in other states). Small cuts in state spending result in a much larger cut in overall Medicaid spending, making them nearly politically unfeasible.
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Monday, February 4, 2008So much for Mississippi FootballBill would ban restaurant sales to the obese By Joseph D. ColettiCategories: Mississippi A Republican state representative in Mississippi, apparently trying to take the Mike Huckabee approach to national office, wants to stop restaurants selling food to nearly one-third of adults in the state. Mississippi has the highest rate of obesity in the country (31.4 percent) and Rep. W. T. Mayhall, Jr.'s, bill would ban restaurant food sales to the obese.
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