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Senate Public Health Chairman Hob Bryan said the lack of transparency around the governor’s program to spend millions in federal rural health dollars in Mississippi is “almost the Saturday Night Live parody of secrecy.” Bryan and his House counterpart, Chairman Sam Creekmore, share their frustrations over lack of input from communities, and the Legislature, in how the state spends federal rural health care money.
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