Cost of Health Care

The pandemic has overwhelmed understaffed state Medicaid agencies, and as Biden's COVID-19 public health emergency declaration ends, low-income people could find it even harder to get coverage.

Conservative legislators don’t want to renew a tax on health care providers unless they can get amendments they say are “pro-life” added.

Eric Meusch, who farms 240 acres just outside Rolla, didn’t have health insurance for seven years until he recently got another job.“We signed up for a…

Iron County is one of the state’s least healthy counties, according to the Missouri Health Atlas.So when Iron County Medical Center in Pilot Knob, about…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 5, 2009 - The country is in the midst of an intense debate regarding whether the federal…

This week, Missouri transferred the state-run health coverage of about 240,000 low-income adults and children to managed care plans run by three…

When St. Louis cardiologist Paul Hauptman got a call from a 25-year-old patient who couldn’t afford to buy his prescription for a generic drug to treat…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 3, 2013 - In response to software glitches and heavy consumer demand on the health insurance…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 25, 2013 - Health policy analysts differ sharply on the conclusions of Wednesday's federal…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 30, 2013 - Gov. Jay Nixon has upped the ante in his criticism of a broad-based tax cut bill…