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Five hospitals in Missouri have announced the formation of a collaborative network today. The network is an effort to improve health care and access to…
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Gov. Jay Nixon is reiterating his push for Medicaid reform, saying expanding the program would cover the 50,000 currently uninsured Missourians who need…
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For about two decades, Wendell Potter spun carefully crafted public relations messages for Humana and Cigna, the insurance companies where he worked. He…
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From KBIA’s Health, Wealth and Society Desk, the first installment of a weekly rundown of health news affecting mid-Missouri.On Medicaid expansion in…
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruling, upholding the federal health law, has provided more clarity to the region and country. Although the U.S. Supreme Court has…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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Chief Justice John Roberts said the requirement that individuals have health coverage or pay a penalty falls within Congress' power to impose taxes. On the issue of Medicaid expansion, a majority of the court said Congress can expand Medicaid, but can't strip states of all their Medicaid funds if they fail to participate in that expansion.
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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…