05.14.19 Medicaid Basics: Using the Fundamentals During a Time of Transformation Last week, the Missouri General Assembly passed the 2020 budget including $34 million…
02.19.19 Pre-existing Conditions: Is poverty on the list? Pre-existing conditions, a term of art in the health insurance industry, has garnered…
09.10.18 Getting Help When We Need It: The Net Benefit It was a stark headline – “Despite strong economy, many Americans struggling to…
03.01.18 The Winners and Losers of Our Health Care System A 9-year-old son having trouble breathing in the middle of the night. A…
12.14.17 Why Isn’t Health a Greater Priority in Missouri? United Health Foundation’s latest America’s Health Rankings of states came out this week,…
05.02.17 Why the American Health Care Act is the Wrong Medicine American health care is sick. It is a big, complicated, vitally important part…
03.22.17 Health in Rural Communities: Invisible in national health reform? Recently I met with community health leaders in three Missouri communities – Kirksville,…
03.06.17 Keeping Missourians Covered in a Time of Uncertainty Looking back on Missouri’s extremely successful Affordable Care Act open enrollment period last…