Missouri Health Insurance Funding Some benefits, including dental and vision coverage, included in Missouri’s new health insurance plan MO HealthNet were not funded this year, state lawmakers said Tuesday at a forum on health care, the Kansas City Star reports. MO HealthNet, which replaces the state’s Medicaid program, took effect on Tuesday, and state lawmakers [...]
Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt (R) on Tuesday announced a three-phase planto help low-income workers obtain health insurance through governmentsubsidies, the Kansas City Starreports. The proposal aims to extend coverage within a year to 131,500working adults with incomes up to 185% of the federal poverty level. Underthe plan, the state in October would seek bids from [...]
Missouri State Children’s Health Insurance Program Even though many Hispanic immigrants inMissouri qualify for programs such as SCHIP, many remain uninsured, inpart because of concern about their immigration status, as well asfederal and state restrictions on their eligibility, the Columbia Missourianreports. Of the nearly three million uninsured Hispanic children in theU.S., 70% are eligible for [...]
MissouriRepublican House leaders have introduced legislation that would expand healthcoverage to low-income state residents and require beneficiaries to contributemoney to savings accounts to use toward deductibles and copayments, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The proposal, called%26quot;Insure Missouri,%26quot;is intended to replace a proposal of the same name by Gov. Matt Blunt (R). Blunt’sproposal failed to garner [...]
The Missouri state Senate onMonday voted 30-4 to approve legislation that includes a program to cover200,000 low- and middle-income state residents, the Kansas City Star reports. The%26quot;centerpiece%26quot; of the bill is a new version of the Insure Missouriprogram originally proposed by Gov. Matt Blunt (R). The measure would provide health insurance for people ages 19 [...]
