Jump to full article: AP, 2008-07-11
Author: EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
Intro: Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says he will file papers Friday to start a nearly monthlong process of cutting millions of dollars from the Medicaid program. . . .
Mississippi Democratic Party chairman Wayne Dowdy said Barbour's plan to cut Medicaid is unnecessary. Dowdy pointed to Barbour's record as a former tobacco lobbyist.
"Gov. Barbour is simply protecting his big tobacco friends by refusing to solve the Medicaid funding problems with an increase in one of the lowest cigarette taxes in the nation," Dowdy said in a news release. "That's wrong. And it's flat-out offensive."
Barbour has said repeatedly that he's not trying to protect tobacco companies.
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