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    Mississippi Senate Republicans push Medicaid expansion 'lite' proposal that would cover fewer people

    A proposal to expand Medicaid to tens of thousands of residents in one of the poorest states in the U.S. is still alive in the Mississippi Legislature . Mississippi’s Republican-controlled Legislature is considering expansion after years of opposition to the policy allowed under the Affordable Care Act, a 2010 federal health overhaul signed by then-President Barack Obama. The proposal passed by a committee Wednesday is the only Medicaid expansion proposal still alive after Senate Republicans t

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  • NewsAssociated Press

    West Virginia Gov. Justice vetoes bill that would have loosened school vaccine policies

    Republican Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday broke with West Virginia's GOP-majority Legislature to veto a bill that would have loosened one of the country's strictest school vaccination policies. West Virginia is only one of a handful of states in the U.S. that offers only medical exemptions to vaccine requirements. The bill would have allowed some students who don’t attend traditional public institutions or participate in group extracurriculars like sports to be exempt from vaccinations typicall

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  • NewsAssociated Press

    Cases settled: 2 ex-officials of veterans home where 76 died in the pandemic avoid jail time

    Two former officials of a veterans home in Massachusetts where at least 76 people died in one of the nation's worst COVID-19 outbreaks in a long-term care facility settled their criminal case Tuesday without having to go to jail. Bennett Walsh, the former superintendent of the Veterans’ Home in Holyoke, and Dr. David Clinton, the home's former medical director, were facing five counts of criminal neglect after the Massachusetts’ highest court overruled a lower court judge last year and reinstat

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  • HealthAssociated Press

    5 takeaways from the abortion pill case before the U.S. Supreme Court

    U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday did not appear ready to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone, in a case that could have far-reaching implications for millions of American women and for scores of drugs regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. It's the first abortion-related case the court has taken since a majority of the current justices struck down the constitutional right to abortion in 2022. A group of anti-abortion doctors had asked the court to restrict access to mi

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  • PoliticsAssociated Press

    Biden and Harris argue that Democrats will preserve health care and Republicans would take it away

    President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday promoted their health care agenda in the battleground state of North Carolina, arguing that Democrats like themselves would preserve access to care while Republicans would reverse gains made over the past decade and a half. Fourteen years after President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, the White House still sees health care as a winning issue during a campaign in which Biden has sometimes found himself on the

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  • CelebrityYahoo Celebrity UK

    Everything you need to know about Kate Garraway: Derek’s Story

    Kate Garraway documents the last year of her husband Derek Draper's life in a new programme.

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  • NewsAssociated Press

    U.S. airport nasal swabbing expanding to Chicago and Miami

    The nation's top public health agency is expanding a program that tests international travelers for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention program asks arriving international passengers to volunteer to have their noses swabbed and answer questions about their travel. The program operates at six airports and on Tuesday, the CDC said it was adding two more — Chicago’s O’Hare and Miami.

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