missouri health care

Businessman takes on federal health care contraceptive provision

Elana Gordon — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:16:18 +0000

A federal court is scheduled today, to take up one Missouri businessesman’s challenge to a recently enacted provision of the federal health law. The provision requires that most employee-health plans include no-cost coverage of contraceptives. But the rule has faced backlash from several businesses and lawmakers around the region.

Missouri bill would ban implementation of health care reform

Associated Press — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:46:54 +0000

A Missouri House panel has endorsed legislation making it a crime for federal officials to attempt to enforce the 2010 federal health care overhaul in the state.

Tracking the doctors, and the dollars

Janet Saidi — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:51:26 +0000

This week in Under the Microscope, a special report: KBIA's JESSICA PUPOVAC goes looking for the doctors and the dollars – for information on local doctors who receive payments from pharmaceutical companies in exchange for promoting their products.