by admin | Mar 19, 2004 | News
The state’s way to help Missourians plug a big gap in the new federal Medicare prescription drug program has received first-round approval from the State Senate. The new federal law helps low-income senior citizens pay their drug bills for the first $2,250. Then...
by admin | Mar 11, 2004 | News
The state proposal to close the so-called “donut hole” in coverage in the new federal Medicare Prescription Drug plan gets a hearing before a Senate committee. Lieutenant Governor Joe Maxwell, the state’s advodate for the elderly,says the federal...
by admin | Mar 4, 2004 | Health / Medicine
State Auditor Claire McCaskill is releasing an audit of the state’s SeniorRX drug program for senior ctiizens. It shows how management improvements could benefit the program, which was set up in 2001. Enrollment in the program was less than half the anticipated...
by admin | Mar 1, 2004 | News
The top leaders of the State Senate have filed a last-minute bill to plug the gap in the new federal prescription drug prgoram. The new federal law cuts off coverage at the $2,500 dollar level and does not resume it until a person has spent $5,000 on drugs. Senate...
by admin | Feb 19, 2004 | News
Missourians who find themselves without a job, because they showed up to work drunk or high, would find themselves without an unemployment check under a bill being debated in the House. An amendment tacked on to the Unemployment Compensation bill would deny...
