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 She believes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, should be repealed.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.
Pine Belt News, Hattiesburg
Washington, D.C. Officials Back Off Against Proposed Metropolitan Statistical Area Definition Change
By Haskel Burns
Officials from the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, D.C. have decided against a proposal to change the current definition of a...
MedPage Today
Senators Talk Rural Health, Lead Screening During CDC Budget Hearing
Agency lauded for work during pandemic
By Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor
WASHINGTON -- Preparing for the next pandemic was high on senators' minds Wednesday during a Senate hearing on the CDC's budget request...
WAPT-TV Jackson
Mississippi senator wants CDC to form new Office of Rural Health
By Troy Johnson
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith has called on the CDC to form an Office of Rural Health.
Hyde-Smith said millions of Americans, including Mississippians, were disproportionately hit during the pandemic due to a lack of health care resources.
"I believe establishing a new office of rural health within the Center for Disease Control would be an important way to support rural...
Hospice News
Senate Bill Would Extend Telehealth Flexibilities Beyond Pandemic
By Jim Parker
A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators have reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. If enacted the bill would expand...
Washington Times
Millions in rural America deserve hospital access and CDC support
By U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
I am a part of a proud fifth-generation farming family. The town where I grew up Monticello, Mississippi has a population of fewer than 2,000 people. Rural America...
HYDE-SMITH: MISS. WANTS FLEXIBILITY IN USING SCHOOL ‘REOPENING’ FUNDS
Education Sec. Cardona Says Dept. Welcomes Innovation in using COVID-related Education Funds
VIDEO: Senator Hyde-Smith Questions Education Secretary on School Funding Flexibility.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today sought to ensure that Mississippi education officials and schools have flexibility to use significant new federal funding provided to “reopen schools,” despite most Mississippi...
HYDE-SMITH, COLLEAGUES TAKE PANDEMIC LESSONS TO IMPROVE SUMMER MEAL PROGRAMS
Hunger-Free Summer for Kids Act Would Help States Reach More Children in Need
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) is part of a bipartisan group that today introduced legislation that applies lessons learned from the pandemic to make child nutrition programs more efficient, flexible and better equipped to reach children in need during the summer.
Hyde-Smith is an original cosponsor of the Hunger...
HYDE-SMITH CONTINUES PUSH FOR THOROUGH FDA REVIEW OF DANGEROUS CHEMICAL ABORTION PILLS
At Hearing, Senator Questions FDA Inconsistencies in Regulating Abortion Pill vs. COVID Vaccines
VIDEO: Senator Hyde-Smith Highlights Need for Review of Dangers to Women’s Health.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today continued a push for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a thorough review of the risks to women’s health from a chemical abortion pill made more...
HYDE-SMITH GETS NIH PROMISE NOT TO VIOLATE GUN OWNERSHIP RIGHTS THROUGH RESEARCH
NIH Directors Pledges to be ‘Very Sensitive’ to Data Collection Prohibitions Even as Biden Pushes for Accelerated Research on Gun Violence
VIDEO: Hyde-Smith Airs Concerns About NIH Research and Gun Registries.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today received a promise from the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that the agency will be “very sensitive” to adhering to a...
AHEAD OF HURRICANE SEASON, WICKER & HYDE-SMITH SEEK TO ENSURE FEMA PREPARED FOR WORKFORCE SHORTAGE
Lawmakers Question Demands on Agency Taxed by COVID-19 Response & Border Crisis
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) are among a group of Senators from coastal states seeking to ensure the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) workforce is ready for the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season.
The Mississippi Senators signed a letter to FEMA...
