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Nixon lets healthcare compact become law
Gov. Jay Nixon stood aside this week and allowed a symbolic piece of anti-federal health care legislation pass into law. By choosing to neither veto nor sign the bill, Missouri will become the newest state to join the interstate Health Care Compact. The legislation is an agreement between states to reject the federal health care [...]
By Brian Hook of Missouri Watchdog and Dick Aldrich and Rebecca Townsend of Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Congress overstepped precedent when enacting the individual coverage mandate of the federal health care law, according to a legal opinion filed by Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster. Koster filed an amicus brief with the federal [...]
Continue reading …New report: 129 million Americans with a pre-existing condition could be denied coverage without new health reform law Without Affordable Care Act protections, in 2014, 1 in 2 non-elderly Americans could be denied coverage or charged more due to a pre-existing condition Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released a new analysis showing [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The House Rules Committee Monday voted 7-3 to pass a non-binding resolution urging Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster to join the 20 other states in suing the federal government over the national health care plan. While more than 70 percent of votes cast favored an August ballot measure that would ban [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The political action committee of the state’s largest farm organization has endorsed southwest Missouri congressman Roy Blunt in his run for the U.S. Senate. The Missouri Farm Bureau invited both Blunt and Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, the Democrat running against him, to speak with [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — From the New York Times, to CNN, to Reuters, Proposition C’s passage was big news. GOP National Chairman Michael Steele weighed in, as did the Obama administration. Seventy-one percent of Missourians who went to the polls in the state’s primary election Tuesday voted in favor of the proposal that would put [...]
Continue reading …WASHINGTON DC — HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the availability of $60 million in Affordable Care Act grants to states and communities to help individuals and their caregivers better understand and navigate their health and long-term care options. Through this opportunity made possible by the Affordable Care Act HHS’ Administration on Aging (AoA) and the [...]
Continue reading …By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – – Missouri Senate President Pro Tem Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, has a new job in the private sector. Shields, whose 20-year term in the Missouri General Assembly ends in January, will be chief operating officer of health-care provider TMC Lakewood. The appointment, announced Monday, builds [...]
Continue reading …State Sovereignty Activists Flood Capitol, Constitutional Amendment Hopes Fade
May 5, 2010 No CommentMay 4, 2010 By REBECCA TOWNSEND Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A parade of vehicles circled the Missouri Capitol Tuesday morning, horns blaring and flags waving, proclaiming support of a Senate resolution to bar the federal government from mandating health care coverage. Without enough to support to advance SJR 25, which would have [...]
Continue reading …April 19, 2010 By REBECCA TOWNSEND Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri State Senate on Monday gave first-round approval to a bill designed to shore up hemorrhaging medical expenses incurred by the Department of Health and Social Services. But if service slips, the state may not be picking up the complaint call. [...]
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