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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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• What Changed in the Health Repeal Plan to Win Over the Freedom Caucus

  April 26, 2017

  A month after pulling their health care overhaul bill from the floor, House Republicans are growing increasingly confident that they may have found a way to pass it. An amendment drafted by Tom MacArthur, a New Jersey congressman, would keep much of the American Health Care Act in place. But it would set up a […]

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• House GOP members are floating a new health plan. Here’s what’s in it.

  April 20, 2017

  House Republicans are floating a new amendment to their health care bill — one that would likely cause even more Americans to lose coverage than the last version.  Leaders of the staunchly conservative Freedom Caucus and the more moderate Tuesday Group have reportedly hashed out a proposal that would let some states ditch key Obamacare […]

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• Drug Deaths Increase Among Middle-Aged, White Missourians

  April 19, 2017

  New research from the Hospital Industry Data Institute finds that drugs caused more than three-quarters of the increase in the overall mortality rates for Missouri white males since 1999. In 2015, populationwide, white males ages 25 to 55 had a drug-induced death rate 43 percent higher than the expected rate, while non-white males had a […]

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• In Major Defeat for Trump, Push to Repeal Health Law Fails

  March 24, 2017

  House Republican leaders, facing a revolt among conservatives and moderates in their ranks, pulled legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act from consideration on the House floor Friday in a major defeat for President Trump on the first legislative showdown of his presidency. “We’re going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future,” the […]

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• How The GOP Bill Could Change Health Care, In 8 Charts

  March 21, 2017

  After years of trying to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, Republicans finally got their chance with the election of President Trump. The House GOP made haste coming up with a bill, releasing the American Health Care Act on March 6. It’s a partial repeal of Obamacare — it includes substantial changes […]

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• 5 ways the House GOP Obamacare bill would affect Missourians

  March 14, 2017

  When House Republicans unveiled their Obamacare replacement plan last week, it unleashed a fierce partisan debate in Washington. Republicans say their proposal would “rescue” Americans from the failures of the Affordable Care Act, which they have blasted as a one-size-fits-all law that forced consumers to purchase expensive insurance plans they didn’t necessarily need and often could not […]

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• Health Bill Would Add 24 Million Uninsured but Save $337 Billion, Report Says

  March 13, 2017

  The House Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act would increase the number of people without health insurance by 24 million by 2026, while slicing $337 billion off federal budget deficits over that time, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Monday. Republicans had been bracing for what was almost certain to be a bleak […]

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• Missouri hospitals could lose billions with ACA repeal, report says

  March 6, 2017

  A recent report from the Missouri Hospital Association shows the state’s hospitals could lose more than $9 billion over the next decade if certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act are repealed. The report, titled “Realities of Repeal,” breaks down by U.S. House district the loss of payments to hospitals if Title III of the […]

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• Hospitals, Both Rural And Urban, Dread Losing Ground With Health Law Repeal

  February 28, 2017

  Commuting past the barren winter fields in northern Illinois, Cathie Chapman worries about the future. More than a year ago, she lost her job at a nearby rural hospital after it closed and, as Republicans work to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, wonders whether she’ll soon be out of work again. “Many of my friends […]

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