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Should never have been submitted to the CRB - these contracts out of their jurisdictions. Might be reason nobody made motion since it wasn't in their realm. I'm sure all the MS Hospital Assn cheerleaders aren't happy - was Ms. Wolfe there to 'report', or is she just going to wait until MHA puts out a press release and she copies/pastes it into an article?

I bet nobody saw that coming. Not even the review board.

A real slap in the face to so many high salary lobbyists

Go look at the campaign finance reports of every elected official that is whining about this.

Nobody else cares except the people with pockets lined with MHA contributions.

Waiting for a Becky Currie comment....

Republican Godfther Van White is representing MHA now. He was in charge of the hit ads taken out on Demorcats during the last two election cycles who are still in the House and Senate. Wonder if he will get David Baria's support for MHA?

@3:05--She is the expert on this matter. She speaks for all providers. Please leave her alone.

We should fire Becky Currie from The House. She is a RINO Democrat.

Interesting that the Darling of the Tea Party and Governor Bryant's Health Policy Advisor, Mizz Becky Currie (Former Nelms) is fighting AFP on the CON issue and is carrying the dirty water for MHA on an entitlement program that (real) Republicans work to shrink NOT EXPAND. Becky, you ma'am, are no Republican. CONs and expanding Medicaid services is what Dems do. Go home.

All those charges you make against Becky Currie ignore the fact that expanding Medicaid and keeping out competition is in her INTEREST. Most people would consider it to be a 'conflict of interest' but when you want to try to be a good TP Conservative, you have to first understand that all those conservative policies only should apply to others. Part of the TP creed - don't go messing in my back yard, just let me bitch about everybody else's.

An obvious failure by Bryant. He brought taggert in to set up a reformed contracting process and the impressive people the installed on the board now fail to do their jobs. They should have approved or rejected but guess outside influence prevailed and they became unable to do their duty. They all need to be fired and replaced with people who can do the job and I include Bryant.

8:06, I respectfully disagree. The board did their job, by doing nothing. This contract does not fall under the auspices of the Review Board, and they recognized the same by failing to respond. No need to set a precedent that would create problems down the road; should never have been sent to CRB and those "impressive people" that were installed recognized such. Except, of course, the one who wants to install his statistical expertise over the agency's.

There is nothing wrong with this process except for the fact that the MHA did not get their way after spending thousands in contributions to make sure they did.

Tells me that the process actually worked.