Suggestions flow as Missouri legislators weigh options for Medicaid, By Virginia Young, August 15, 2013, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Give patients with chronic diseases a health care team. Monitor a state database to spot abuse of prescription drugs. Reward pregnant teens who keep their doctor appointments. Those were among the many suggestions that flowed Wednesday to a Senate committee examining ways to improve the quality and efficiency of Medicaid, the joint state and federal health care program for the poor. The Senate hearing was one of two held Wednesday as Missouri legislators grapple with whether to expand Medicaid to cover an additional 260,000 people, as envisioned by the federal Affordable Care Act…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty