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Senator Hyde-Smith supports common-sense, patient-centered healthcare reforms to help Mississippi families afford health insurance coverage without expanding the government’s role in providing health care.  She believes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, should be repealed.

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.


HYDE-SMITH STATEMENT ON MAHA COMMISSION REPORT

HYDE-SMITH STATEMENT ON MAHA COMMISSION REPORT

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today asserted she and farmers across the country had every right to be concerned about the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission report issued on Thursday by Health and Humans Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  

At a hearing this week, Hyde-Smith confronted Kennedy about concerns the MAHA initial report would mischaracterize important crop protection tools that have...

HYDE-SMITH REINTRODUCES BILL TO STRENGTHEN SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES STRUGGLING WITH INFERTILITY

HYDE-SMITH REINTRODUCES BILL TO STRENGTHEN SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES STRUGGLING WITH INFERTILITY 

Legislation Promotes Restorative Reproductive Medicine Through Existing Federal Programs

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), chair of the Senate Pro-Life Caucus, today reintroduced legislation to provide couples with more personalized and effective infertility treatment to help them choose how and when to grow their families.

The Reproductive Empowerment and Support through...

SENATORS INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO EASE THE FINANCIAL BURDEN OF PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH

SENATORS INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO EASE THE FINANCIAL BURDEN OF PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH

Hyde-Smith, Kaine, Hawley & Gillibrand Tout ‘Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act’

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) today introduced new, bipartisan legislation to insulate expecting parents from the high cost of pregnancy and childbirth by eliminating insurance cost-share fees on services related to...

HYDE-SMITH WARNS AGAINST BASELESS ATTACKS ON AMERICAN FOOD PRODUCTION IN PENDING MAHA REPORT

HYDE-SMITH WARNS AGAINST BASELESS ATTACKS ON AMERICAN FOOD PRODUCTION IN PENDING MAHA REPORT

HHS Sec. Dismisses Miss. Senator’s Concerns that MAHA Report Will Ignore Decades of Sound Science, Undermine Confidence in American Food Supply with False Claims

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VIDEO:  Senator Hyde-Smith Confronts HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on a MAHA Report Due Thursday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In advance of an expected Thursday release of an initial Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) report, U.S. Senator Cindy...

HYDE-SMITH REINTRODUCES BILL TO RESTORE EMERGENCY CARE SERVICES AT RURAL HOSPITALS

HYDE-SMITH REINTRODUCES BILL TO RESTORE EMERGENCY CARE SERVICES AT RURAL HOSPITALS

‘Rural Health Sustainability Act’ Would Make More At-Risk or Closed Rural Hospitals Eligible for CMS Program

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today reintroduced her legislation to give more at-risk or closed rural hospitals an opportunity to reestablish or maintain emergency outpatient hospital services.

The Rural Health Sustainability Act (S1800), which Hyde-Smith introduced initially...

HYDE-SMITH BACKS BILL TO COMBAT SCREWWORM OUTBREAK

HYDE-SMITH BACKS BILL TO COMBAT SCREWWORM OUTBREAK

The STOP Screwworms Act would Boost Capacity to Stop Parasite from Reaching U.S. Livestock & Wildlife  

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss) this week cosponsored bipartisan legislation to step up American efforts to ensure a resurgent infestation of the New World screwworm (NWS) does not reach the United States where the impacts to animal health and agriculture could be devastating.

The introduction of the Strengthening...

HYDE-SMITH, MERKLEY LEAD BILL TO ADDRESS MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT SHORTAGES

HYDE-SMITH, MERKLEY LEAD BILL TO ADDRESS MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT SHORTAGES

Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation Would Create Loan Program to Increase Mental Health, Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today joined U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) to introduce a bill to help increase access to care for mental health and substance use disorders as the nation grapples with a lack of treatment facilities.

The Mental Health Infrastructure...

How Congress can Help Families in Times of Economic Turbulence

Concerned Women for America

How Congress can Help Families in Times of Economic Turbulence

By Maggie McKneely

Between the chaos of the COVID pandemic and the out-of-control inflation caused by Biden-era policies, Americans have taken a hit to their pocketbooks over the past several years. In a...

Three Mississippi hospitals approved for rural program

WJTV-TV Jackson

Three Mississippi hospitals approved for rural program

By Sethanie Smith

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) said three Mississippi hospitals have been approved to participate in the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration (RCHD) program through the...