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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  She believes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, should be repealed.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 THE PASSING OF SENATOR THAD COCHRAN

HYDE-SMITH STATEMENT ON THE PASSING OF SENATOR THAD COCHRAN

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today issued the following statement regarding the passing of U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.):

“Mississippi has suffered a tremendous loss today.  Senator Thad Cochran was an incredible leader and a most respected member of the United States Senate.  My colleagues who served with him consistently speak of him with such high regard.  So many have said to me that he was...

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HYDE-SMITH BACKS RESOLUTION TO RAISE AWARENESS OF CHILDHOOD BRAIN TUMOR DISEASE

HYDE-SMITH BACKS RESOLUTION TO RAISE AWARENESS OF CHILDHOOD BRAIN TUMOR DISEASE

DIPG Pediatric Brain Cancer Has Claimed the Lives of South Mississippi Children

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today agreed to be a lead cosponsor of a Senate resolution calling for greater awareness of DIPG Pediatric Brain Cancer, a rare disease that has claimed the lives of three children in South Mississippi over an eight-year period.

The resolution would designate Friday, May 17...

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Federal health plans extension good news for Mississippi

WLBT-TV Jackson
 
Federal health plans extension good news for Mississippi
 
By ShaCamree Gowdy
 
JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Monday that they will allow insurance companies to continue to offer certain health plans that would have been phased out...

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Mississippi receives $3.58M grant to fight opioid crisis

WLOX-TV Biloxi
 
Mississippi receives $3.58M grant to fight opioid crisis
 
By WLOX Staff
 
WASHINGTON, DC (WLOX) - The State of Mississippi has been awarded a $3.58 million grant to fight the opioid crisis, as announced by U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith.
 
The Mississippi Department of Mental Health...

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Mississippi receives grant to fight opioid crisis

The Associated Press
 
Mississippi receives grant to fight opioid crisis
 
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — One of Mississippi's U.S. senators has announced the state has been awarded a multi-million dollar grant to fight the opioid crisis.
 
WLOX-TV reported Thursday that the state Department of Mental Health...

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Senator Hyde-Smith talks rural healthcare in Mississippi

NewsMS.fm
 
Senator Hyde-Smith talks rural healthcare in Mississippi
 
By Alex Paton
 
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith participated in a Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee hearing this week to question Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar...

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NIH Funding Needs to Keep Rising, Senators Say

MedPage Today

NIH Funding Needs to Keep Rising, Senators Say

By Joyce Frieden

WASHINGTON -- Federal funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) needs to continue going up, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), chairman of the Senate committee that reviews the agency's funding, said Thursday.

"Both...

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Republican senators seek to stop DC's individual mandate

Washington Examiner
 
Republican senators seek to stop DC's individual mandate
 
By Robert King
 
A group of six GOP senators want to stop the District of Columbia’s effort to create their own individual mandate that every city resident get health insurance.
 
The senators introduced on Tuesday an...

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