Alliance Release: Vote on Medicaid Expansion Defies Public Opinion, Array of...
…committee sides with lone lobbyist over dozens of diverse supporters… Jefferson City, Mo. – The following is the statement of Andrea Routh, Executive Director of the Missouri Health Advocacy Alliance,...
View ArticleMissouri Senate Rejects Medicaid Expansion Amendment to Budget Bill (and So...
News Release Missouri Senate Rejects Medicaid Expansion Amendment to Budget Bill (and So Much More) …move also a rejection of job growth, rural communities and Missouri’s uninsured population … …St....
View ArticleThe True Cost of Medicaid Expansion Failure in Missouri
Missourians to Hold Candlelight Vigil to Show Human Cost of Medicaid Expansion Failure …1,500 candles to represent annual Missouri lives that will be lost without expanded access to lifesaving health...
View ArticleRAND Corp. study: increased costs for states that decline Medicaid dollars
There’s a new study on the economic impact of states declining to take advantage of the federal dollars that come with a Medicaid expansion…and the news is not good for them. States that choose not to...
View Article“A healthy attitude toward expanding Medicaid”
Wendell Potter has followed-up his Alliance-sponsored visit to Missouri with an op-ed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today. Six years ago this month, while serving as head of communications for one of...
View ArticleGov. Nixon visits St. Joseph pharmacy to discuss HB 253 veto
Gov. Nixon visits St. Joseph pharmacy to discuss his veto of a $200 million sales tax increase on Missourians who need prescription drugs In St. Joseph, House Bill 253 would result in a new tax of 9.2...
View ArticleState of the State Response
The following is the response of Andrea Routh to Governor Nixon’s State of the State address: Governor Nixon was once again right to focus his State of the State message on the importance of expanding...
View ArticleStudy: Failure to Expand Medicaid Will Cost Missouri Dollars and Lives
Legislators “not just putting political concerns ahead of our economy, they’re also endangering the lives of Missourians who would gain coverage” Jefferson City, Mo. – A new study by Harvard...
View ArticlePost-Dispatch: Missouri lags behind in insurance pricing transparency
By Samantha Liss Health insurance carriers all across the country are disclosing what they plan to charge customers for coverage in 2015 – almost everywhere, that is, except Missouri. In Connecticut,...
View ArticleSB 51: Strong-Arm Tactics to Strip 200k in MO of Health Coverage
…Health advocates say SB 51 tells insurance companies: “stop selling affordable policies through the marketplace or lose your license to sell any policies at all”… Jefferson City, Mo. – A bill being...
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