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Senate approves cut to health care program

March 10, 2003
By: Elizabeth Gill
State Capital Bureau

Lawmakers slam the University of Missouri for its refusal to participate in an effort to streamline health care costs for state workers. Elizabeth Gill reports:

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Date: April 23, 2003

By: Elizabeth Gill

State Capital Bureau

Health care for low income women is in jeapordy if the senate approved health department budget is passed by the Governor. Elizabeth Gill reports.

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Among the 11 million dollars in cuts is the elimination of a women's health service that provides health care to more than 30 thousand low income women.

Democratic Senator Joan Bray tried unsuccessfully to save the program during floor debate:

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Contents: At best, the effort to do away with family planning services for low income women is misguided, at worst it's mean, it's cynical."

Bray says abondoning women's health now will cost the state more money in the long run.

She emphasized that women who are not regularly screened for certain types of cancer are 7 times more likely to get sick.

But senate appropriations chair John Russell said throughout the debates the state simply doesn't have the money to save every single program.

From the state Capitol, I'm Elizabeth Gill, KMOX news.