Discount Rx program in Jackson County

Jackson County is helping to make prescription drugs more affordable for people who don't have insurance of don't have good coverage. This seems too easy to be true. According to the article 12 other counties participate, but this is the first I've heard of it.

From The Mississippi Press:

Jackson County is launching a discount card program starting today that will offer an average savings of 20 percent off the retail price of commonly prescribed drugs for uninsured or underinsured residents.

The program, being made available by the Board of Supervisors under a program sponsored by the National Association of Counties, will be available to those who do not have prescription insurance or whose insurance does not cover their prescription needs.

"It has to do with the people who not have insurance," said Supervisor Manly Barton.

The free cards are available to all county residents, regardless of age, income or health coverage and will be accepted at 27 area pharmacies.

Residents will not have to fill out an application form or pay an annual membership fee, and there is no restrictions on the number of times a participant uses the card. A national network of more than 57,000 participating retail pharmacies also will honor the prescription discount card.

Chaos Back Home / Supervisors in Ocean Springs Nearly Come to Blows

It's not a secret back home that I don't have the highest opinion of several of my Supervisors.

Leach has gotten into fights before and is known as somewhat of a bully.

McKay has been involved in some of those spats and stood in the way of progress after Katrina calling the planning process commissioned by the governor bull shit.

Well they're back at it again.
The Sun Herald:

A sheriff's deputy called for more help Monday at the Jackson County Board of Supervisors' meeting when two supervisors got into a shouting match some feared might come to blows.
The supervisors, John McKay and Frank Leach, had been down that road before, but this time they hit a new low with McKay asking Leach, "Did you miss your medicine?" and Leach calling McKay "a bald-faced liar."

As first reported on sunherald.com, it started when McKay chided Leach, saying he had not properly reported an accident in his county vehicle that caused $5,000 in damage.

Leach replied he had filed a report and the comments went back and forth quickly and escalated to shouting with Tim Broussard, the board president, matter-of-factly trying to calm the two.

"I'm not backing off. Why don't you tell him to shut up?" Leach said loudly to Broussard. "Mr. McKay starts this stuff when he's a bald-faced liar."

Broussard called a 15-minute recess to break them up and clear the room of county employees, some of whom said they were afraid the men were going to hit each other.

But the recess didn't stop Leach and McKay.

Read it all, it reads like fiction. Sadly it is not.

Leach was defeated in the Republican primary this year so he's only with us in elected office through January.

McKay was unfortunately unopposed so he should remain for another four years.