{"id":105272,"date":"2022-12-05T15:58:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=105272"},"modified":"2022-12-05T15:58:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:58:54","slug":"extending-postpartum-coverage-to-mississippi-mothers-a-no-brainer-key-lawmaker-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=105272","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Extending postpartum coverage to Mississippi mothers \u2018a no brainer,\u2019 key lawmaker says&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mississippitoday.org\/2022\/12\/01\/extending-postpartum-coverage-mississippi\/?fbclid=IwAR1MoqSiCXhkFCBO8WLiTgTPMiChb6InecLrYjOzdn0A6PHNAw9c6auvf_c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MS Today<\/a>: &#8220;Mississippi can spend about $7 million a year to keep mothers and newborns healthier, or continue to spend tens of millions more dealing with the fallout of having the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mississippitoday.org\/2022\/09\/29\/mississippi-remains-deadliest-state-for-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worst infant and maternal mortality and morbidity<\/a>\u00a0in the country, health experts told lawmakers Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis reminds me of that Midas commercial: Pay me now, or pay me later,\u201d said Sen. Kevin Blackwell, R-Southaven, chairman of the Senate Medicaid Committee. \u201cThe cost later is obviously significantly more. The relatively minimal amount to provide this care compared to the cost later \u2013 it\u2019s a no brainer in my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blackwell\u2019s committee on Thursday heard testimony from numerous health experts on benefits of increasing the length of postpartum Medicaid health coverage for mothers from 60 days to a year \u2013 as most states have done or are considering. Postpartum coverage has been extended for mothers in all states during the federal pandemic health emergency but will end when the national emergency is ended, which is expected to happen soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MS Today: &#8220;Mississippi can spend about $7 million a year to keep mothers and newborns healthier, or continue to spend tens of millions more dealing with the fallout of having the\u00a0worst infant and maternal mortality and morbidity\u00a0in the country, health experts told lawmakers Thursday. \u201cThis reminds me of that Midas commercial: Pay me now, or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105273,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105272\/revisions\/105273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}