Senator Hyde-Smith supports common-sense, patient-centered health care reforms to help Mississippi families afford health insurance coverage without expanding the government’s role in providing health care. As she has throughout her public career, the Senator has maintained a sharp focus on improving rural health care.
Senator Hyde-Smith appreciates the role of the state’s universities to support federal research on better prevention and treatment efforts on chronic diseases, like diabetes, that affect Mississippians disproportionally.
WICKER, HYDE-SMITH WELCOME ENACTMENT OF ORGAN DONATION REFORM BILL
WICKER, HYDE-SMITH WELCOME ENACTMENT OF ORGAN DONATION REFORM BILL
Miss. Senators Cosponsored Measure to Change Policy that Harms Transplant Patients in the South, Midwest
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today welcomed the enactment of legislation they backed to break up the monopoly contract that manages the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN).
President Biden on Friday signed the Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement and...
WICKER, HYDE-SMITH BACK BILL TO STOP USE OF ‘PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY’ TO INFRINGE ON SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS
WICKER, HYDE-SMITH BACK BILL TO STOP USE OF ‘PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY’ TO INFRINGE ON SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS
Miss. Senators Again Cosponsor ‘Protecting the Right To Keep and Bear Arms Act of 2023’
WASHINGTON, D.C. – With threats of federal or state efforts to promote gun control through emergency declarations, U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) again cosponsored legislation to ensure that law abiding Americans do not arbitrarily have their rights stripped in...
HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS RURAL VETERINARY WORKFORCE ACT
HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS RURAL VETERINARY WORKFORCE ACT
Bipartisan Legislation Written to Address Shortage of Veterinarians in Rural America
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) is among a bipartisan group of Senators who have reintroduced legislation to address the growing shortage of veterinarians in rural communities.
The Rural Veterinary Workforce Act (S.2829) would end the current 39 percent federal withholding tax on loan repayment awards given to veterinarians who...
U.S. Senate introduces Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act
Brookhaven Daily Leader
U.S. Senate introduces Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act
By Daily Leader Staff
The Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act (S.1957) was introduced this week by Sen. Roger Marshall M.D. (R-Kan.). Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), of Brookhaven, helped introduce the bipartisan...
Delta Council Addresses Rural Health Care
Clarksdale Press Register
Delta Council Addresses Rural Health Care
By Floyd Ingram
Small, out-patient hospitals are not the wave of the future – they are here.
One of the nation’s top healthcare experts told those gathered for the Delta Council’s annual meeting last week that big-box, multi...
If you build it, they will come: A safe haven at the pharmacy
Pharamcy Today
If you build it, they will come: A safe haven at the pharmacy
Ilisa BG Bernstein, PharmD, JD, FAPhA
June 2023 Volume 29, Issue 6
In the 1989 film Field of Dreams, an Iowa farmer is inspired to pursue a dream. He builds a baseball field on his farm driven by the promise that “if you...