The University of Missouri (MU) Health Care system is an academic health system that says it seeks to achieve its vision to be “the premier and transformational academic health system for Missouri … through exemplary education, research, and patient care.”
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A ballot initiative approved by voters in Massachusetts is expected to increase costs and reduce access for families.
According to the Missouri Department of Social Services (DSS), over 1.5 million Missourians are currently covered by Medicaid.
In an era of declining rural health care elsewhere around Missouri, a hospital in Hannibal is planning to expand to Kirksville and compete with an existing facility there, which some fear could endanger the financial viability of both.
“Is the patient a Democrat or a Republican?” That’s not a question anyone would want to hear their doctor ask at a clinic; it’s absurd and inappropriate.
Missouri as of late has been looking overseas for new opportunities, both diplomatically and economically.
"It's what the people want!" Paula Prentice, a volunteer with Legal Missouri 2022 and a board member for NORML KC, a non-profit cannabis reform group, said. "People were happy, happy to sign, happy to get medical options."
However, twice in the past twenty years the state has awarded the contract to Medical Transportation Management (MTM), a company that has defaulted on the contract, not once but twice.
"This budget session, however, you can take pride in the fact that your Missouri Legislature. Both Republicans and Democrats came together on something necessary and good and impactful."
The court announced its intention to grant a temporary restraining order in the case, which is expected to keep Title 42 in place for now.