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Medicaid reimbursement rate increases for birthing units around the state were approved Wednesday as Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington spoke of the long-term damage being done to maternal health-care since the state’s new abortion ban went into effect.
High above the clouds at 6,288 feet, the Governor and Executive Council met for the first meeting in state history atop Mount Washington Wednesday and voted to approve a number of contracts.
For the fourth time, the current Republican-controlled Executive Council has rejected a series of contracts for health care at reproductive clinics throughout the state, impacting thousands of low-income women.
Councilor Cinde Warmington pressed Gov. Chris Sununu on what he plans to do to protect abortion providers and their out-of-state patients at Wednesday’s Executive Council meeting.
Acknowledging the financial impact to New Hampshire consumers is a “significant concern,” the state’s Public Utilities Commission nonetheless approved a six-month, 112 percent increase in the kilowatt-hour cost of electricity for the state’s largest utility as had been feared and expected.
CONCORD – Just two days after a leaked Supreme Court draft decision indicating Roe v. Wade is set to be overturned, reproductive health care was on the top of elected officials’ minds.
Pamela Smart’s request for a commutation hearing on her life in prison accessory to murder conviction was unanimously rejected by the state’s Executive Council Wednesday.
What could have been the start of a $45 million mental health hospital for the state in Epping was removed from the table of the state’s Executive Council for the third time Wednesday.
The state has agreed to purchase the 111-bed Hampstead Hospital in Hampstead on Wednesday to care for children, which will help to alleviate the state’s emergency room boarding crisis.