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Mississippi has long had high childhood immunization rates, but a federal judge has ordered the state to allow parents to opt out on religious grounds.

For more than 40 years, Mississippi had one of the strictest school vaccination requirements in the nation, and its high

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A lawsuit filed in September 2022 alleges that “both on its face and as applied, the Compulsory Vaccination Law violates [the plaintiffs’] First Amendment rights and their right to be free from unlawful statutes.”

Calling it a lifeline, the Mississippi Legislature appropriated $103 million in grants for state hospitals. However, the “lifeline” appears to be more of a Band-Aid.

Rural hospitals are struggling all over the nation because of population declines, soaring labor costs and a long-term shift toward outpatient care.

Mississippi is one of 10 states, all with Republican-led legislatures, that continue to reject federal funding to expand health insurance for the poor, intensifying financial pressure on hospitals.

Rural hospitals are struggling all over the nation because of population declines, soaring labor costs and a long-term shift toward outpatient care. But those problems have been magnified by a political choice 10 states, including Florida, all with Republican-controlled legislatures. They have spurned the federal government’s offer to shoulder almost all the cost of expanding Medicaid coverage for the poor. And that has heaped added costs on hospitals because they cannot legally turn away pati...

Rural hospitals are struggling all over the nation because of population declines, soaring labor costs and a long-term shift toward outpatient care. But those problems have been magnified by a political choice 10 states, including Florida, all with Republican-controlled legislatures. They have spurned the federal government’s offer to shoulder almost all the cost of expanding Medicaid coverage for the poor. And that has heaped added costs on hospitals because they cannot legally turn away pati...