by Alisa Nelson | Mar 31, 2021 | Health / Medicine, News
The Republican-controlled Missouri House of Representatives has given initial approval to defunding a Medicaid expansion effort approved by voters last year. The chamber could choose to use the governor’s $1.9 billion budget request for the expansion to instead help...
by Alisa Nelson | Aug 3, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News
A Medicaid expansion measure is one of the hot items at the ballot box in Tuesday’s primary election. Missouri voters will be asked whether to expand Medicaid to another 230,000 low-income adults. Currently, about 950,000 Missourians get government-funded healthcare....
by Alisa Nelson | Jul 21, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
The federal government abruptly instructed the nation’s hospitals to shift last week to a new system of reporting COVID-19 data. Missouri Hospital Association spokesman Dave Dillon tells Missourinet they were given 72 hours to make the switch. “That’s when the wheels...
by Ashley Byrd | Mar 13, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
As of this posting, two Missourians have tested positive for the coronavirus out of 73 tested. Others are being triaged through clinics, healthcare providers, telemedicine, and hospitals. The burden on hospitals at this time is checking, testing and treating...
