/tags/cost-of-health-care Cost of Health Care en-US Copyright © 2024 �������� Wed, 21 Aug 2024 10:00:00 GMT /economy-business/2024-08-21/direct-health-care-contracts-companies-employees-deductibles Employees can access health care with no out-of-pocket costs as long as they visit doctors or facilities that their company has a direct contract with. Wed, 21 Aug 2024 10:00:00 GMT /economy-business/2024-08-21/direct-health-care-contracts-companies-employees-deductibles Eric Schmid /government-politics-issues/2024-02-21/jb-pritzker-proposes-erasing-1-billion-illinois-medical-debt Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker will include the $10 million ask in his budget proposal for the next fiscal year to erase $1 billion in Illinoisan's medical debt. The investment would mark the first in a multi-year plan. Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:49:07 GMT /government-politics-issues/2024-02-21/jb-pritzker-proposes-erasing-1-billion-illinois-medical-debt Tina Sfondeles /government-politics-issues/2024-02-05/illinois-immigrant-health-programs-enact-copays-as-cost-estimates-decline The state-funded health care programs serving certain low-income noncitizens have declined by tens of millions of dollars in recent months as the state rolled out new copay and coinsurance requirements this week. Mon, 05 Feb 2024 22:27:24 GMT /government-politics-issues/2024-02-05/illinois-immigrant-health-programs-enact-copays-as-cost-estimates-decline Jerry Nowicki /health-science-environment/2022-04-04/a-staffing-crisis-is-causing-missourians-to-wait-for-month-for-medicaid-and-it-could-get-worse The pandemic has overwhelmed understaffed state Medicaid agencies, and as Biden's COVID-19 public health emergency declaration ends, low-income people could find it even harder to get coverage. Mon, 04 Apr 2022 21:45:07 GMT /health-science-environment/2022-04-04/a-staffing-crisis-is-causing-missourians-to-wait-for-month-for-medicaid-and-it-could-get-worse Bram Sable Smith, Rachana Pradhan /government-politics-issues/2021-06-23/missouri-special-session-on-funding-medicaid-starts-but-the-debate-hasnt-changed Conservative legislators don’t want to renew a tax on health care providers unless they can get amendments they say are “pro-life” added. Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:59:22 GMT /government-politics-issues/2021-06-23/missouri-special-session-on-funding-medicaid-starts-but-the-debate-hasnt-changed Jonathan Ahl /government-politics-issues/2019-08-04/rep-jason-smith-touts-more-affordable-health-care-praises-trade-war-in-visit-with-farmers Eric Meusch, who farms 240 acres just outside Rolla, didn’t have health insurance for seven years until he recently got another job.“We signed up for a… Sun, 04 Aug 2019 05:04:44 GMT /government-politics-issues/2019-08-04/rep-jason-smith-touts-more-affordable-health-care-praises-trade-war-in-visit-with-farmers Jonathan Ahl /government-politics-issues/2019-07-05/dispute-between-usda-and-iron-county-medical-center-could-lead-hospital-to-close Iron County is one of the state’s least healthy counties, according to the Missouri Health Atlas.So when Iron County Medical Center in Pilot Knob, about… Fri, 05 Jul 2019 10:52:27 GMT /government-politics-issues/2019-07-05/dispute-between-usda-and-iron-county-medical-center-could-lead-hospital-to-close Jonathan Ahl /health-science-environment/2019-05-27/commentary-health-care-reform-can-pay-for-itself-in-the-long-run This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 5, 2009 - The country is in the midst of an intense debate regarding whether the federal… Tue, 28 May 2019 04:44:37 GMT /health-science-environment/2019-05-27/commentary-health-care-reform-can-pay-for-itself-in-the-long-run Robert Cropf /health-science-environment/2017-05-02/as-missouri-shifts-medicaid-patients-to-private-insurers-critics-say-that-puts-patients-at-risk This week, Missouri transferred the state-run health coverage of about 240,000 low-income adults and children to managed care plans run by three… Wed, 03 May 2017 03:09:17 GMT /health-science-environment/2017-05-02/as-missouri-shifts-medicaid-patients-to-private-insurers-critics-say-that-puts-patients-at-risk /health-science-environment/2016-11-17/study-finds-wide-disparity-in-pricing-of-generic-drugs-to-treat-heart-failure-at-local-pharmacies When St. Louis cardiologist Paul Hauptman got a call from a 25-year-old patient who couldn’t afford to buy his prescription for a generic drug to treat… Thu, 17 Nov 2016 11:12:30 GMT /health-science-environment/2016-11-17/study-finds-wide-disparity-in-pricing-of-generic-drugs-to-treat-heart-failure-at-local-pharmacies