Category: Access to Care
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The Deep Divide: State Borders Create Medicaid Haves And Have-Nots
By: Laura Ungar ST. LOUIS — Patricia Powers went a few years without health insurance and couldn’t afford regular doctor visits. So she had…
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What is Really Needed to Improve the Health of Black Women?
My mother recently passed away, and as I reflected on her life and thought about my work in women’s health, I couldn’t help but…
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Introducing FORESIGHT: Designing a Future for Health
If you ask today’s analysts about the future of health, you’ll get a dismal response. They project runaway health care costs, inadequate health outcomes,…
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Making Change – Capturing HRSA New Access Points Funding for Missouri
Our MoCAP program is a bit different from our other changemaking strategies. Through it we offer free grant-writing services and technical assistance to qualifying…
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We All Have a Safety Net
Recently, we’ve had no shortage of news reports about all the ways that the health and social safety net should be re-evaluated and strengthened.…
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Medicaid Basics: Using the Fundamentals During a Time of Transformation
Last week, the Missouri General Assembly passed the 2020 budget including $34 million to transform and modernize Medicaid (referred to as MO HealthNet in…
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Pre-existing Conditions: Is poverty on the list?
Pre-existing conditions, a term of art in the health insurance industry, has garnered widespread attention recently. What began in the 1930s as a list…
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A Broken Government Reveals What Unites Us – The Net Benefit
When we launched our campaign #TheNetBenefit last summer, we already knew we were dealing with a critical issue. Our goal was a timely one…
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Leveling the Playing Field: Fairness and Health
Growing up, my sense of fairness came from two things. The first is sports. My dad was a coach. He coached football, basketball, and…
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Getting Help When We Need It: The Net Benefit
It was a stark headline – “Despite strong economy, many Americans struggling to get by” – according to the article and a new report…
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Missouri Foundation for Health Launches The Net Benefit
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Courtney Stewart Missouri Foundation for Health cstewart@mffh.org (314) 345-5505 Missouri Foundation for Health Launches The Net Benefit Campaign to lift…
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Our Journey Into Supportive Housing
We often have days in our personal and professional lives that we’ll remember forever. April 16th, 2014, is one of those for me. That…