Leaders have been obsessed with preventing welfare fraud among poor; not so much among wealthy

State legislative leaders spent an inordinate amount of time in 2017 passing the Medicaid and Human Services Transparency and Fraud Prevention Act to put in place additional reporting requirements and other safeguards to ensure poor Mississippians were not getting benefits some feared they did not deserve.

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Medicaid covers his healthcare. St. Dominic charged him anyway. And a collection agency sued to collect.

Matthew Daniel Hall had been treated for years at St. Dominic Memorial Hospital, but when his mother tried to get her disabled son into a home of his own, that proved impossible because his credit score had plummeted.

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A Daughter’s Plea

GoFundMe began as a place to support social and similar causes, but now families battling diabetes are using the fundraising platform as a last-ditch attempt to cover the skyrocketing price of their life-saving drugs and supplies.