State health department braces for impending hospital crisis

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As the Mississippi health care crisis worsens and threatens to imminently shutter hospitals in the Mississippi Delta, the state Department of Health is taking steps to prepare for the impending disaster.

by Kate Royals, Mississippi Today December 8, 2022 The Mississippi State Department of Health, an agency that has been gutted by budget cuts and weakened services over the past decade, was not staffed nor funded to take on the full burden of replacing health care services lost if hospitals close. But State Health Officer Dr. Daniel Edney recently told lawmakers the department, in anticipation of an increase of health care deserts in the Delta, has begun assessing how it can help.

This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

 

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The government could print massive amounts of money and it will not touch the inflation caused by the credit system. They find every which way to blame all these problems on everyone else except the source of the problem because it is too uncomfortable for people.

Amazing how we can print money to bail out rich idiots, but we cannot print money to save lives. We act like that money that is being printed is scarce or something. This all is truly mind blowing that we allow it to carry on.

Tate Reeves wants to give tax money back. He could easily fix this problem if he actually cared about people. It’s criminal how he’s running the state

Expand Medicare, this is cruel

Brother Tate has $2 billion in state surplus money. Rhinos taking care of his people screw the others. economic racism the tradition of Mississippi

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