Category: Health Reform

Missouri voters passed Medicaid expansion. What happens next?

By McClain Bryant Macklin on August 20, 2020
Director of Policy and Strategic Initiatives
Health Forward Foundation

At the beginning of August, Missouri voters sent a clear message: it’s time to provide Missourians the health care we all need and for Missouri’s tax dollars come back home to benefit the state and its residents.  The passage of Medicaid expansion on August 4 was a huge success for the uninsured and underserved, and […]

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Health Reform

Missourians don’t despair, they stand and fight back

By Cecilia Belser-Patton on July 20, 2020
Inclusion & Equity Director
Yes On 2/Healthcare For Missouri

Earlier this month, we celebrated our nation’s Independence Day and the as-yet-unrealized vision of the Founders to secure, “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”  Of course, not all of us have enjoyed these allegedly inalienable rights. COVID-19 has shone a bright light on the health care disparities that have plagued our state since long […]

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Health Care, Health Reform, Policy, Safety Net

‘Sorry, you don’t qualify’: Many Missourians can’t access affordable health coverage

By Erica Andrade on July 8, 2020
Chief Program Officer
El Centro Inc.

How I dread having to utter the words, “Sorry, you don’t qualify.” Every year, as we assist hard-working families to sign up for Medicaid or the insurance marketplace, this is a phase we have to use often.  Worst yet is when we explain to someone that their income is too low to qualify for marketplace […]

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Health Reform, Policy

What Missourians need to know to vote Yes on Amendment 2

By Richard von Glahn on June 25, 2020
Policy Director
Missouri Jobs with Justice

I will admit that, in the midst of a global health pandemic that appears to be resurging in Missouri, as well as the protest movement for racial justice, it can be easy to lose focus on things that would otherwise command our attention.  Elections, especially primary elections that tend to have lower turnout anyway, can […]

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Health Reform, Policy

Emerging data show COVID-19 disproportionately impacts communities of color

By Qiana Thomason on April 23, 2020
President/CEO
Health Forward Foundation

An abundance of national historical data reminds us that in public health, when America catches a cold, people of color catch pneumonia. As coronavirus (COVID-19) rips through our communities, it exposes social injustice and divisions that determine whether people have necessary resources to be healthy.  As such, we are paying acute attention to nascent local […]

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Health Reform, Healthy Communities, Pandemic Impact, Policy, Social Factors

During public health crises, equity should be central to solutions

By Qiana Thomason on March 13, 2020
President/CEO
Health Forward Foundation

As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to sweep across the globe, we are witnessing its tremendous impact internationally, nationally, and locally. Prohibitions on travel from certain countries, state of emergency proclamations by state and local governments, universities moving to online courses, and major entertainment and sporting events are shutting its doors to the public. With […]

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Health Care, Health Reform, Pandemic Impact, Policy, Safety Net

Big Idea: It’s time to change the way we talk about poverty

By Jason Wesco on October 30, 2019
Executive Vice-President
Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas in Pittsburg

“Whatever happened to the idea…that we all do better when we all do better?”                                                              — Former Senator Paul Wellstone I live in the poorest town in the poorest county in […]

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Health Reform, Healthy Communities

Campaign asks Missouri voters to put Medicaid expansion on ballot

By Bridget McCandless, MD on September 5, 2019
President and CEO
Health Forward Foundation

Available. Accessible. Affordable. Health Forward Foundation has been working toward these goals for health care services in our two states since our founding in 2003. While we realize health entails far more than just access to care, having quality health care still matters.  I arrived at Health Forward six years ago this week. It was a […]

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Health Reform, Policy

12 steps to bolster advocacy efforts

By Anne F. Rauth, MBA on April 11, 2019
Marketing and Development Director
Mercy and Truth Medical Missions

Advocacy efforts have been underway for several years now in Missouri and Kansas to expand coverage of Medicaid. Through my work at safety net clinic Mercy and Truth Medical Missions, I see individuals every week that are not covered under the plan, and they struggle to cover the cost of a co-pay to see a […]

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Health Reform, Policy, Safety Net


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