Missouri

• Hospitals could lose $500 million in federal funds

  By Kelli Kennedy  |  May 13, 2013

  Hospitals nationwide could lose half a billion dollars in federal funding meant to offset the cost of covering the uninsured next year.

• Missouri lawmakers torpedo Medicaid expansion

  By Politico  |  May 8, 2013

  Republican supermajorities have all but scuttled Medicaid expansion in Missouri, defeating — at least for this year — efforts supported by the Democratic governor to extend basic health coverage to an estimated 250,000 low-income state residents.

• FDA wants cancer warnings on tanning beds

  By MATTHEW PERRONE  |  May 6, 2013

  Indoor tanning beds would come with new warnings about the risk of cancer and be subject to more stringent federal oversight under a proposal unveiled Monday by the Food and Drug Administration.

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  Top 10 cheapest states for long-term care

  By Marlene Y. Satter  |  May 3, 2013

  Will you or your client be one of the 70 percent of people over 65 who will need long-term care at some time in your life? Genworth’s annual study on the cost of LTC indicates that if you are, you will — unsurprisingly — be paying more for it.

• 1. Health reform in our time

  By Denis Storey  |  April 30, 2013

  A timeline of health reform, the moments, turning points and events that defined the debate, 1993-present.

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  Small businesses face delay in exchange choices

  By Allen Greenberg  |  April 12, 2013

  Small-business advocates are pushing back against plans by the Obama Administration to delay by one year offering health insurance plans through government-run marketplaces.

• Employers eager for new foreign worker program

  By Sam Hananel  |  April 10, 2013

  As desperate as unemployed Americans are to find work, there are still some jobs that many would never consider applying for because they are seen as too dirty, too demanding or just plain unappealing.

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  When the feds go marching in

  By Mark Roberts  |  April 4, 2013

  The harsh reality is that health care has the stamp of Big Brother — good, bad or ugly. Here are the top four concerns about how the federal government is going to treat you under Obamacare.

• Missouri House passes $25B budget without Medicaid plan

  By DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press  |  March 28, 2013

  The Missouri House passed a nearly $25 billion budget Thursday that would fund modest increases for public education but not a Medicaid health care expansion for lower-income adults sought by Gov. Jay Nixon.

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  GOP’s ‘no’ on Medicaid becomes ‘Let’s make a deal’

  By David A. Lieb  |  March 25, 2013

  Given the choice of whether to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care law, many Republican governors and lawmakers initially responded with an emphatic “no.” Now they are increasingly hedging their objections.