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• Hardworking Missourians Need Access to Healthcare

  December 10, 2019

  Healthcare for Missouri, a coalition of voters and patients, medical professionals, business leaders, and organizations, is committed to expanding access to healthcare to more than 200,000 hardworking Missourians. Together, we can collect the more than 172,000 signatures needed to put Medicaid expansion on the ballot. Find a petition signing event near you. More Resources How […]

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• Medicaid Covers a Million Fewer Children. Baby Elijah Was One of Them.

  October 22, 2019

  Nationwide, more than a million children disappeared from the rolls of the two main state-federal health programs for lower-income children, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, between December 2017 and June, the most recent month with complete data. Some state and federal officials have portrayed the drop — 3 percent of enrolled children — […]

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• CDC Intensifies Warnings About Vaping Illness As Cases Top 1,000

  October 3, 2019

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intensified its warnings about the risks of vaping, as the number of patients with vaping-related illness continues to climb. The case count has reached 1,080, the agency announced Thursday. There have been 18 deaths in 15 states, and more deaths are being investigated. All patients reported a history […]

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• State Border Splits Neighbors Into Medicaid Haves And Have-Nots

  October 1, 2019

  Patricia Powers went a few years without health insurance and was unable to afford regular doctor visits. So the Missouri resident, who lives near St. Louis, had no idea that cancerous tumors were silently growing in both of her breasts. If Powers lived just across the Mississippi River in neighboring Illinois, she would have qualified […]

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• ‘Out Here, It’s Just Me’: In The Medical Desert Of Rural America, One Doctor For 11,000 Square Miles

  September 28, 2019

  In the medical desert that has become rural America, nothing is more basic or more essential than access to doctors, but they are increasingly difficult to find. The federal government now designates nearly 80 percent of rural America as “medically underserved.” It is home to 20 percent of the U.S. population but fewer than 10 percent of its […]

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• Rural Residents Are Less Likely To Develop Colon Cancer, But More Likely To Die From It

  September 22, 2019

  Across the country, people who live in rural areas are more likely to be diagnosed with late-stage colon cancer than city dwellers, according to a new study published in the Journal of Rural Health. Patients living in counties far from populated cities and suburbs were 1.23 times more likely to be diagnosed with non-curable, stage […]

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• Nine Suspected Vaping-Related Illnesses In Missouri, Two Hospitalized At Children’s Hospital

  September 13, 2019

  Two cases of lung illness associated with the use of e-cigarettes have been reported in Missouri over the past two weeks, and seven more possible cases are under investigation, state health department officials said in a news release Thursday. Read more from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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• As Missouri Trims Its Medicaid Rolls, Families Say They’ve Been Kicked Off Unfairly

  August 29, 2019

  In recent months, eligible families across the state say they’ve been arriving at doctors’ appointments to learn their children have been unwittingly dropped from the program and are unable to receive the required medical care. Health care providers, advocates for children and parents raised an alarm when Missouri’s Medicaid enrollment began to decrease steadily last year. Between […]

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• Opioid Treatment Is Used Vastly More in States That Expanded Medicaid

  August 21, 2019

  States that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act have seen a much bigger increase in prescriptions for a medication that treats opioid addiction than states that chose not to expand the program, a new study has found. The study, by researchers at the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research group, adds to the evidence that the 2010 health […]

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• Missouri Doctors, Advocates Want Voters To Decide Whether To Expand Medicaid

  August 4, 2019

  Proponents of a Medicaid expansion in Missouri want to allow voters to override the state’s Republican leaders, who have refused to extend coverage to more people. The Healthcare for Missouri coalition is collecting signatures on a petition that would place a Medicaid expansion on the November 2020 ballot. If approved by voters, Missouri would expand […]

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