health care reform

Health news roundup: Medicaid edition

Harum Helmy — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:34:50 +0000

From KBIA’s Health, Wealth and Society Desk, the first installment of a weekly rundown of health news affecting mid-Missouri.

Missouri to decide on Medicaid expansion

Elana Gordon — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:44:52 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling, upholding the federal health law, has provided more clarity to the region and country.

Court's Medicaid ruling could leave thousands uninsured

Véronique LaCapra — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:58:22 +0000

As part yesterday's Supreme Court decision on Obama's health care law, the justices ruled the federal government can't revoke states' Medicaid funding for failing to comply with the law's required Medicaid expansion. And as Véronique LaCapra reports, that could leave some Missourians without access to health insurance.

After Supreme Court decision on health care, Missourians split on next step

Jacob Fenston — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:26:58 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld most of the federal health care law in a ruling this morning. Among Missouri officials, and on the streets of downtown Columbia this afternoon, reaction was mixed.

The Supreme Court's health care decision: what does it mean for Missouri?

Kelsey Proud — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:46:42 +0000

Will be updated.

Updated 5:06 p.m. with more information.

As we reported this morning, the Supreme Court has held that the federal healthcare law is constitutional.

That includes the individual mandate that requires almost all Americans to buy health insurance by 2014.

The Court called the penalty that someone must pay for refusing to buy insurance a kind of tax that the Congress can impose under the Constitution.

Health Insurance Exchanges

Some will turn to the online marketplaces known as health insurance exchanges to fulfill the mandate.

The director of health policy for the Missouri Foundation for Health, Ryan Barker, says Missouri is one of a couple dozen states that have resisted setting up a state health insurance exchange.

Supreme Court Upholds Care Health Law

editor — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:11:00 +0000

In one of the most widely anticipated decisions in recent history, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the sweeping federal law overhauling the nation's health care system is constitutional.

Chief Justice John Roberts said the requirement that individuals have health coverage or pay a penalty — known as the individual mandate — is within Congress' power to impose taxes.

Nixon says individual insurance mandate is not good for Missouri

Adam Allington — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:07:04 +0000

Speaking at ceremonial bill signing in St. Louis, Governor Nixon sounded more like a Republican when he asked about the Supreme Court’s impending health care ruling.

Rural provisions of health care law could be affected by court ruling

Jacob Fenston — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:31:55 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court will likely rule on the fate of the federal health care reform law this Thursday. That ruling could affect provisions of the law aimed at improving health in rural America.

Missouri awaits Supreme Court ruling on health reform

Jacob Fenston — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:09:52 +0000

Health care reform is in the cross-hairs at the U.S. Supreme Court this week. In this Health & Wealth update, as the nine justices hear oral arguments on Obama's 2010 health reform, implementation of some aspects of the law are on hold in Missouri.

Newscast for March 23, 2012

Jacob Fenston — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:22:54 +0000

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

Missouri House committee endorses legislation making it a crime for federal officials to enforce the 2010 federal health care overhaul in Missouri.
Missouri House passes $24 billion state budget.
Missouri flag desecration law declared unconstitutional.