Medicaid expansion could be coming to Mississippi with a dash of Arkansas-style policy, but hurdles remain
Check out map of which states have adopted Medicaid expansion, from health care policy nonprofit KFF. It’s kind of wild, given how bitterly Republican politicians initially opposed the policy. Mississippi could be next, where an expansion measure continues to advance in the state Legislature — with a plan perhaps partly inspired by the unusual variation on […]
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Washington Post spotlights ballot initiative push to protect abortion rights in Arkansas
RED-STATE ACTIVISM: An abortion rights rally held earlier this year at the Capitol As readers of this blog know, signatures are currently being gathered to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot that would reverse Arkansas’s abortion ban. If passed, the amendment would not allow the state to “prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion services […]
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NIL: Power 5 commissioners urge congress to take action | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
The Power 5 conference commissioners say boosters are inducing high school and transfer athletes to attend their affiliated universities with “payments inaccurately labeled as NIL,” and they are encouraging Congress to make such actions illegal. In a two-page letter obtained by Sports Illustrated and sent to Sens. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), the […]
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Tommy Tuberville leading new congressional push for NIL regulation | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Tommy Tuberville, the college football coach turned U.S. senator, is spearheading the latest congressional movement to regulate name, image and likeness (NIL). In an interview this week, the 67-year-old Republican senator from Alabama announced his intent to draft a bipartisan NIL bill with fellow senator Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat from West Virginia. In a […]
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