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Missouri Hospital Association Study: GOP Health Bill Shorts State On Medicaid
June 12, 2017
A Missouri Hospital Association study of the American Health Care Act found that the Republican health care bill leaves Missouri and 18 other states that didn’t expand Medicaid short of federal money and continuing to feel the strain of uncompensated care. David Dillon, vice president of public and media relations for the hospital association, said […]
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For Rural Hospitals Already On The Brink, GOP’s Proposed Medicaid Cuts Would Hit Hard
June 1, 2017
For the hundreds of rural hospitals struggling to stay in business, health policy decisions made in Washington D.C. this summer could make survival a lot tougher. Since 2010, at least 79 rural hospitals have closed across the country, and nearly 700 more are at risk of closing. These hospitals serve a largely older, poorer and […]
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As Senate Mulls A Health Care Overhaul, Area Patients Take Stock Of What Coverage Changes Could Mean
May 31, 2017
A Republican proposal to gut the Affordable Care Act narrowly passed the U.S. House of Representatives and now the U.S. Senate is crafting its own bill to reshape the nation’s health care system. Elected officials have held few town halls to hear from constituents in the St. Louis area about what they want in a […]
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House GOP Health Bill Projection: 23 Million More Uninsured
May 24, 2017
The health care bill Republicans have pushed through the House would leave 23 million additional people uninsured in 2026 compared to President Barack Obama’s health care law, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. The GOP bill would lower average premiums, but in part that would be because coverage would typically be skimpier. In a blow […]
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Report Finds High Vacancy Rates In Hospital Workforce
May 17, 2017
A new report from the Missouri Hospital Association finds that the statewide vacancy rate for staff nurses — a mainstay of hospital care and the single largest category of employees — has increased to 15.9 percent. In addition, turnover for staff nurses remains high at 14.3 percent. A high nurse vacancy rate is consequential because […]
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Health Act Repeal Could Threaten U.S. Job Engine
May 8, 2017
The outsize economic role of the American health care industry heightens the risks posed by the Republicans’ effort in Washington to repeal the Affordable Care Act, enacted in 2010 under President Barack Obama, and it comes at a delicate moment for the broader economy. While the government reported Friday that unemployment was at its lowest […]
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In Rare Unity, Hospitals, Doctors and Insurers Criticize Health Bill
May 4, 2017
It is a rare unifying moment. Hospitals, doctors, health insurers and some consumer groups, with few exceptions, are speaking with one voice and urging significant changes to the Republican health care legislation that passed the House on Thursday. The bill’s impact is wide-ranging, potentially affecting not only the millions who could lose coverage through deep […]
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House Republicans repeal Obamacare, hurdles await in U.S. Senate
May 4, 2017
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday narrowly approved a bill to repeal Obamacare, handing Republican President Donald Trump a victory that could prove short-lived as the healthcare legislation heads into a likely tough battle in the Senate. The vote to repeal former President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement, which enabled 20 million more Americans […]
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GOP Health Bill Could Expose People With Pre-Existing Conditions to ‘Whims’ of State Legislatures
May 3, 2017
Two-year-old Ryan Lennon Fines is sitting on his family’s couch flipping through a picture book of emergency vehicles. He’s looking for the motorcycle, but first he stops on the page with an airplane. “That’s an air ambulance,” his father Scott Fines tells him, “you’ve been on one of those.” When Ryan was born […]
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Jimmy Kimmel makes a very personal case for protecting coverage for preexisting conditions
May 2, 2017
Fighting back tears, comedian Jimmy Kimmel opened his Monday night show by talking about the recent birth of his son Billy — and how an alert nurse detected a heart defect in the baby just hours after birth. After emergency consultations, a team at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles carried out a delicate surgery to save the newborn. And since the personal is […]
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