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May 4, 2020
National Security Gas Prices Energy Sponsored Legislation Co Sponsored Legislation Protecting Life Health Care Immigration Rebuilding the Gulf Coast Second Amendment Jobs Economic Growth Taxes Transportation Veterans...coronavirus The strict measures we have taken have slowed the spread of the pandemic and kept our health care system from being overwhelmed However these gains have come at a severe cost to our economy our livelihoods...senior care facilities and hospitals may once again welcome visitors More Testing Is Needed To make this reopening and recovery possible we need a huge expansion of testing This will allow health care professionals...

May 3, 2017
National Security Gas Prices Energy Sponsored Legislation Co Sponsored Legislation Protecting Life Health Care Immigration Rebuilding the Gulf Coast Second Amendment Jobs Economic Growth Taxes Transportation Veterans...Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act of 2017 CONNECT for Health Act is intended to build on evidence that telehealth and remote patient monitoring improve care and patient satisfaction...lower costs and improve the quality of care for Medicare patients Wicker said Telemedicine and remote patient monitoring have proven to be cost effective tools to care for some of Mississippi s most rural...

July 28, 2015
National Security Gas Prices Energy Sponsored Legislation Co Sponsored Legislation Protecting Life Health Care Immigration Rebuilding the Gulf Coast Second Amendment Jobs Economic Growth Taxes Transportation Veterans...The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program HRRP authorized in the Patient Production and Affordable Care Act requires CMS to penalize hospitals up to 3 of Medicare reimbursement when a substantial proportion...days of discharge The program has shown promise by encouraging hospitals to invest in improvements in care coordination and effective discharge planning The effects of the policy have been widespread According...

January 9, 2017
National Security Gas Prices Energy Sponsored Legislation Co Sponsored Legislation Protecting Life Health Care Immigration Rebuilding the Gulf Coast Second Amendment Jobs Economic Growth Taxes Transportation Veterans...Policies Aimed at Lowering Costs Increasing Access January 9 2017 I voted against the President s health care law when Democratic supermajorities in Congress passed it in 2010 I voted for the law s repeal in...nearing reality Why Obamacare Doesn t Work Mississippians have told me time and again why the health care law does not work for them For starters the cost of health insurance has become unaffordable How are...

December 18, 2015
National Security Gas Prices Energy Sponsored Legislation Co Sponsored Legislation Protecting Life Health Care Immigration Rebuilding the Gulf Coast Second Amendment Jobs Economic Growth Taxes Transportation Veterans...addition to important tax relief and essential cybersecurity reforms the legislation also advances care for our veterans encourages economic development and makes improvements to Mississippi s infrastructure...the National Center of Excellence for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Boosting funding for veterans health care benefit claims processing medical research and technology upgrades Prohibiting the Obama Administration...

May 7, 2020
National Security Gas Prices Energy Sponsored Legislation Co Sponsored Legislation Protecting Life Health Care Immigration Rebuilding the Gulf Coast Second Amendment Jobs Economic Growth Taxes Transportation Veterans...coronavirus testing in Mississippi Wicker has been a strong proponent for expanded testing to allow health care professionals to diagnose and treat COVID 19 patients and allow non infected residents to return to...860 704 Family Health Care Clinic Inc 845 629 Coastal Family Health Center Inc 632 929 Southeast Mississippi Rural Health Initiative Inc 622 939 North Mississippi Primary Health Care Inc 321 544 Aaron E...

December 7, 2009
National Security Gas Prices Energy Sponsored Legislation Co Sponsored Legislation Protecting Life Health Care Immigration Rebuilding the Gulf Coast Second Amendment Jobs Economic Growth Taxes Transportation Veterans...December 7 2009 With the critical and consequential health care debate now before the Senate my guiding principles have been simple Any health care bill must enact the reforms that the people of Mississippi...Mississippi have asked for and deserve It must lower health care costs strengthen quality expand coverage and improve access while allowing people to keep the plans and the physicians they know and trust Now that...

June 16, 2014
National Security Gas Prices Energy Sponsored Legislation Co Sponsored Legislation Protecting Life Health Care Immigration Rebuilding the Gulf Coast Second Amendment Jobs Economic Growth Taxes Transportation Veterans...preliminary report by the VA s Office of Inspector General IG paint a heartbreaking picture of veteran care in America The reports show that egregious delays in treatment and manipulated records at a VA hospital...died while on waiting lists are not isolated issues but part of a wider crisis affecting the medical care of veterans across the nation The magnitude of this negligence and mismanagement has rightly stirred...

May 7, 2019
National Security Gas Prices Energy Sponsored Legislation Co Sponsored Legislation Protecting Life Health Care Immigration Rebuilding the Gulf Coast Second Amendment Jobs Economic Growth Taxes Transportation Veterans...safe high quality health care and the invaluable role that nurses play in patient care and support Nurses are among the most trusted professionals in our nation s health care system Wicker said This week...of America s 4 million registered nurses and to thank them for the work they do to provide quality care and improve patient outcomes As the husband of a nurse I ve seen close up how difficult their jobs...

June 19, 2014
National Security Gas Prices Energy Sponsored Legislation Co Sponsored Legislation Protecting Life Health Care Immigration Rebuilding the Gulf Coast Second Amendment Jobs Economic Growth Taxes Transportation Veterans...determine these rates going forward We must continue to hold our hospitals accountable for the quality of care they re providing to Medicare patients but we cannot let differences in income serve as an obstacle...patients will have higher rates of readmissions even when they provide high quality patient focused care Failing to recognize this reality has led to unfair penalties at many rural hospitals in West Virginia...

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