Bill ending Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood heads to Missouri governor A bill seeking to end Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood clinics in Missouri is making its way to Republican Gov. Mike Parson. 04/24/2024 - 8:05 am | View Link
Mississippi lawmakers haggle over possible Medicaid expansion as their legislative session nears end Top Mississippi lawmakers have started negotiating on what could become a landmark plan to expand Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands of people in one of the poorest states in the U.S. But even ... 04/23/2024 - 3:22 pm | View Link
Mississippi Medicaid Expansion Dr. Randy Easterling, a central Mississippi physician and small business owner, was among a group who urged lawmakers to fully fund a Mississippi Medicaid expansion plan during a Tuesday, April ... 04/23/2024 - 6:52 am | View Link
FSSA encourages Medicaid members 60+ to select Pathways plan as lawmakers flag concerns The Family and Social Services Administration said Medicaid members 60 years or older need to select their Pathways for Aging health plan or they will be auto enrolled starting in late April. 04/22/2024 - 8:03 am | View Link
Morning Report — Foreign aid bill impacts could be felt in days The House passed its $95 billion foreign aid package over the weekend, allotting funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. As the bills await passage in the Senate, their impact is already ... 04/21/2024 - 11:36 pm | View Link
During a Supreme Court hearing on Idaho abortion law, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and Justice Samuel Alito clashed over fetal protections under federal law EMTALA. Prelogar argues women deserve necessary medical care, challenging Alito's focus on "unborn child" protections.
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Arizona doctors could give their patients abortions in California under a proposal announced Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to circumvent a ban on nearly all abortions in that state.
It would apply only to doctors licensed in good standing in Arizona and their patients, and last only through the end of November.
Defendants in Colorado sexual assault cases soon will be prohibited from using what a victim was wearing or a victim’s hairstyle as evidence of consent.
Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera, who is the acting governor this week, signed House Bill 1072 Wednesday afternoon. The bipartisan legislation is aimed at strengthening protections for sex assault victims in court by expanding the rape shield law.
John Cage, the influential composer and artist, is dead. So it’s technically impossible to know with absolute certainty how he would feel about the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University.
But the question emerges after New York Times columnist John McWhorter, a music humanities and linguistics professor at Columbia, wrote that he was forced to stop students from playing Cage’s 4’33”—a seminal work that’s effectively four minutes and 33 seconds of silence (though Cage-heads might disagree with that description)—because of the demonstrations.