Do you know how many people in Mississippi get medical help through Medicare and Medicaid? What you need to know about the ...

Ever wonder how much Mississippi sends to the federal government in taxes vs. how much residents get back? Here's what we ...

Social Security and Medicare have historically been considered untouchable because the main beneficiaries of those two ...

Ten states haven't expanded Medicaid yet. Two of them, Georgia and Mississippi, have seriously considered doing so. In an interesting coincidence, Medicaid itself costs around $880 billion a year ...

Gutting Medicaid means attacking a program backed ... like West Virginia and Mississippi, get over 70 percent.) Significant cuts to this funding would send fiscal shock waves through state ...

Mississippi receives more than $2 in federal ... About 53% of federal transfer spending to states, $584.9 billion, covered Medicaid and CHIP, per OMB and the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Only one Mississippi hospital ranked in the top 5 ... Providers and Systems survey data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Jennifer Shutt WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress have gotten a crash course in Medicaid during the last few weeks, as they ...

Senate Medicaid Chairman Kevin Blackwell, R-Southaven, told Mississippi Today he will not be taking up a House bill to fix the issues in the program. He called it “his prerogative as chairman” – ...

(Photo by Lucas Ninno/Getty Photos) Medicaid covers 63% of the 1.2 million nursing home residents in the country, according to KFF. West Virginia, Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia are the ...