Category: Access to Care
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Learning During Crisis: Access to contraceptive services amid the COVID pandemic
The health care system has experienced unprecedented disruption during the COVID era. In addition to new virus-related challenges, long-standing health equity issues were magnified…
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The High Price of Health Care in Missouri: Confronting Crushing Costs
Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) more than a decade ago, Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH), along with thousands of advocates…
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Protecting Maternal Health After Childbirth
Bringing a new baby home can be a time that passes in a happy blur for most families. Weeks of lost sleep and teething…
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Roe v. Wade: The Wrong Way for Our Rights
When I started my job at MFH in the summer of 2014, I was pregnant. That year was one of the happiest of my…
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Roe v. Wade: The Wrong Way for Our Rights
I remember how excited my parents were when they learned I was going to have a sister. They were young — 21 and 24.…
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Roe v. Wade: The Wrong Way for Our Rights
Women have long been discriminated against, and while progress has been made, we are now at a point where our reproductive rights are under…
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Roe v. Wade: The Wrong Way for Our Rights
In retrospect, I was just lucky — I was 6 years old on January 22, 1973. By virtue of my birth year, I have…
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Roe v. Wade: The Wrong Way for Our Rights
Unlike most men, in our society, a women’s life trajectory is often inextricably linked to childbearing. Childbearing can be a joyous and life-affirming occasion.…
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Roe v. Wade: The Wrong Way for Our Rights
While the Supreme Court has decided to overturn Roe v. Wade, thereby further upholding discriminatory oppression and damaging our health systems, Missouri Foundation for…
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Ensuring Healthy Moms: The Case for Extending Medicaid Postpartum Coverage
Missouri is experiencing a maternal mortality crisis, with mortality rates double the national average. The situation is even more dire for Black parents, who…
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Medicaid Expansion Upheld by Missouri Supreme Court
In August of 2020, a substantial majority of Missouri voters approved an amendment to ingrain Medicaid expansion into the state’s constitution. Today, in a…
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Contraceptive Access is Critical to Health Equity
The Missouri General Assembly has reconvened for a special session this week to reauthorize the Federal Reimbursement Allowance (FRA), the provider tax that finances…