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1997 Health Stories

• 12/ 2/1997: Under new HMO guidelines, HMOs must pay for a medical procedure after they have authorized it.
• 11/25/1997: Radio Story - The state mental health committee met to discuss possibilities in changing private insurance to cover mental health.
• 11/20/1997: Radio Story - Two months after Missouri tightened its rules on methadone, federal scientists suggest easing methadone prescription.
• 11/18/1997: Radio Story - Missouri law-makers will get another attempt to criminalize partial-birth abortions.
• 10/ 2/1997: Radio Story - Maximum travel distances for medical care are proposed in order to implement the Managed Care Law.
• 10/ 2/1997: Radio Story - In the proposal designed to implement the Managed Care Law, advanced nurse practitioners will play an important part.
• 10/ 2/1997: Radio Story - Proposed methamphetamine regulations would make it harder to buy cold medicine.
• 9/25/1997: Radio Story - Despite all the political rhetoric about partial-birth abortions, none have ever been reported in Missouri, according to the Health Department.
• 9/17/1997: Newspaper Story - Health coverage requirement stripped from the legislature's tax-break, economic development bill.
• 9/11/1997: Radio Story - Senator Kinder introduced partial-birth legislation identical to that vetoed by Governor Carnahan in July
• 9/11/1997: Radio Story - Two new abortion bills, with opposing perspectives, are introduced into the Senate
• 9/11/1997: Radio Story - The lone Republican who voted against the partial-birth abortion over-ride has the support of the party leader.
• 9/11/1997: Newspaper Story - Anti-abortion forces call for a delay on abortion legislation while the governor calls for action in the special session.
• 9/11/1997: Radio Story - The sponser of the vetoed partial-birth abortion bill says he wants to go home and leave the issue for next session.
• 9/11/1997: Radio Story - Governor Carnahan may in effect be sending a dead bill on partial-birth abortion to lawmakers. Senate Minority Leader sees it as a possible reason to adjourn session.
• 9/10/1997: Newspaper Story - The governor adds partial-birth abortion to the legislature's special session.
• 9/ 9/1997: Radio Story - The top senate leader of the democrat party says he will vote to over-ride the governor's partial-birth abortion veto.
• 9/ 4/1997: Radio Story - A concensus on partial-birth abortion must be reached before the issue will be added to the legislative agenda
• 9/ 4/1997: Radio Story - Sponsor of partial birth abortion bill wants to override Governor Carnahan's veto.
• 9/ 2/1997: Radio Story - The recent suicides of two Saint Louis men have prompted the chairman of the House Critical Issues Committee to launch an investigation.
• 9/ 2/1997: Newspaper Story - Missouri would pay for James Earl Ray's liver transplant if he's released from Tennessee prison.
• 8/29/1997: Newspaper Story - Compromise rejected to avoid a veto overrride effort on the legislature's partial-birth abortion ban.
• 8/28/1997: Radio Story - Missouri's Health Department says it has not received any reports of e-coli contamination involving infected Hudson meat.
• 5/17/1997: Newspaper Story - Legislative session ends passing a tax cut but failing on a number of other major issues.
• 5/17/1997: Newspaper Story - Health was one of the major areas of accomplishment for Missouri's 1997 legislative session.
• 5/14/1997: Newspaper Story - Managed care regulation sent to the governor.
• 5/13/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate passed a bill that establishes a non-profit to provide more health insurance access to kids with an amendment to expand Medicaid eligibility.
• 5/13/1997: Radio Story - Missouri's Senate passed bill that would provide affordable health insurance for children.
• 5/13/1997: Newspaper Story - The managed care regulation bill has reached a stalemate over the inclusion of administrative rulemaking language, which the Senate Judiciary Chairman wants.
• 5/ 9/1997: Newspaper Story - The sponsor of the House managed care reform bill said he will accept a Senate amendment added to please business.
• 5/ 9/1997: Radio Story - State lawmakers failed to pass the budget, even after pushing the 6PM deadline by nearly two hours.
• 5/ 8/1997: Radio Story - State lawmakers get caught up in abortion debate with less than 10 hours left to pass the budget.
• 5/ 6/1997: Radio Story - House votes to subject repeat sex offenders to chemical castration drugs.
• 5/ 6/1997: Radio Story - Chemical castration is now part of a bill that would punish the spreading of AIDS
• 5/ 6/1997: Newspaper Story - The managed care was welcomed to its first day of debate in the Senate by several amendments from opponents.
• 5/ 5/1997: Radio Story - The measure is designed to prevent the spread of HIV.
• 5/ 1/1997: Radio Story - Feature background on Attorney General Jay Nixon's decision to sue the tobacco industry.
• 4/29/1997: Newspaper Story - House Republicans say they're apprehensive about bringing universal care into the state through the proposed children's health insurance bill that passed the House Monday.
• 4/28/1997: Radio Story - The House passed a measure that would provide health care for needy kids.
• 4/24/1997: Radio Story - Senator Marvin Singleton, a physician, wondered why it took so long for Attorney General Jay Nixon to file suit against several tobacco companies.
• 4/23/1997: Newspaper Story - After refusing to discuss the issue last week, Attorney General Jay Nixon announced Tuesday he is joining the tobacco lawsuits.
• 4/21/1997: Radio Story - Prompted by the pending sale of St. Louis' Deaconess Hospital, Missouri legislators move another step closer to new guidelines for selling a not-for-profit hospital.
• 4/17/1997: Newspaper Story - The state attorney general refuses to discuss what position he will take on the tobacco industry negotiations.
• 4/17/1997: Radio Story - Missouri's attorney general refuses to discuss the state position on a settlement that will strip smokers of right to sue cigarette companies.
• 4/17/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate Aging committee passee the HMO regulation bill and added a "community rating" provision.
• 4/15/1997: Radio Story - Missouri lawmakers are working to prohibit the use of state funds in human cloning research.
• 4/15/1997: Radio Story - The Missouri House gave preliminary approval to a measure that would require insurance companies to pay for breast reconstruction following a mastectomy.
• 4/14/1997: Radio Story - The House began debates over a measure to implement an organization to provide children's health insurance.
• 4/12/1997: Radio Story - The House threw out a provision that would have set up a sales tax to fund indigent health care in St Louis.
• 4/10/1997: Radio Story - Feature on lawmakers who have a personal stake in the managed health care issue before the state legislature.
• 4/ 8/1997: Radio Story - In a move that would impact a pending St. Louis deal, the Senate approved a bill that would give the Attorney General and Department of Health review of who purchases a not-for-profit hospital.
• 4/ 8/1997: Newspaper Story - House clears the HMO regulation bill, after staff estimate the measure will cost the state $37 million.
• 4/ 7/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate gave preliminary approval to legislation outlawing partial birth abortions.
• 4/ 7/1997: Radio Story - A Senate committee heard a bill that would require HMOs to accept any doctor who is willing to practice in medically underserved areas
• 4/ 7/1997: Radio Story - Lawmakers want to ban state funding of human cloning research.
• 4/ 7/1997: Radio Story - The Critical Issues Committee hears bill to allow government funding of abortions.
• 4/ 7/1997: Radio Story - A Senate committee rejected a House plan to limit family planning funding to goverment agencies.
• 4/ 7/1997: Radio Story - Missouri Senate voted to ban partial birth abortion Monday.
• 4/ 3/1997: Radio Story - Missouri's Senate begins debate on banning partial-birth abortions.
• 4/ 3/1997: Newspaper Story - Lobbyists opposing HMO regulation have intensified their efforts while they focus on the Senate.
• 4/ 3/1997: Newspaper Story - Three General Assembly members have professions that directly link them to the manged care debate.
• 4/ 3/1997: Radio Story - Should legislators vote on an issue if they have a conflicting interest?
• 4/ 1/1997: Radio Story - Missouri's major business organization renews its opposition to managed are regulation.
• 3/27/1997: Radio Story - Missouri law makers voted NO to making parents submit a written approval for their child to take sex education classes.
• 3/27/1997: Radio Story - House accepts amendment to the health care budget that would keep state money for family planning from going to Planned Parenthood.
• 3/27/1997: Radio Story - The House passed the managed care bill after 9 days of debate.
• 3/27/1997: Newspaper Story - The House (135-19) passed the HMO regulation bill, which will now move on to the Senate.
• 3/27/1997: Newspaper Story - An amendment aimed at keeping state funds from abortion providers was passed in the House.
• 3/26/1997: Newspaper Story - Missouri's only MD legislator attacks the attorney general for suing the tobacco industry.
• 3/26/1997: If lawmakers have their way prostitutes will have to undergo HIV tests upon conviction
• 3/24/1997: Radio Story - Missouri representatives voted to make HMO's liable to medical malpractice lawsuits.
• 3/24/1997: Newspaper Story - The House votes to let consumers sue HMOs for medical malpractice.
• 3/24/1997: Radio Story - Construction unions oppose a bill to eliminate some asbestos removal safety regulations.
• 3/20/1997: Radio Story - State lawmakers must decide whether or not the federal health insurance mandate will have a significan impact on the citizens of Missouri.
• 3/20/1997: Newspaper Story - The House voted by a 2-1 margin against an amendment to the HMO bill that would have required insurance companies to cover non-elective cosmetic surgery.
• 3/20/1997: Newspaper Story - AHouse Committee heard testimony on a bill that would require some sex offenders to be chemically castrated.
• 3/20/1997: Newspaper Story - The performance of partial birth abortions would be a second degree murder under legislation in the House.
• 3/19/1997: Newspaper Story - The American Association of Retired People meet at the Capitol to support health care bills.
• 3/19/1997: Newspaper Story - The House took up the HMO regulation bill and added a direct access requirement to it.
• 3/18/1997: Newspaper Story - A House committee heard several similar bills that would implement the federal Kennedy-Kassebaum Act on health care insurance.
• 3/18/1997: Radio Story - Missouri legislators heard several house bills on how to enforce the Federal Kassebaum-Kennedy Act
• 3/17/1997: Newspaper Story - Bill that requires parental consent for tattoo or body piercing of a child
• 3/17/1997: Radio Story - A senate proposal would require massage therapists to be licensed before they could practice in Missouri.
• 3/ 5/1997: Radio Story - House Committee heard partial birth abortion testimony.
• 3/ 4/1997: Radio Story - Lawmakers heard testimony from supporters of a bill that would allow hepatitus vaccinations for certain state workers.
• 3/ 3/1997: Radio Story - The house committee on critical issues examines two initiatives dealing with assisted suicide.
• 3/ 3/1997: Radio Story - Missouri's Senate begins debate on banning partial-birth abortions.
• 2/28/1997: Radio Story - State Legislature proposed to implement a needle exchange program through the health department.
• 2/27/1997: Radio Story - HMO reform bills were sent to both the senate and house floors. If passed into law the bill will implement drastic changes in managed care.
• 2/27/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate Committee on Aging, Families and Mental Health heard testimony on the managed care regulation package.
• 2/27/1997: Newspaper Story - House and Senate committees overwhelmingly voted for the HMO regulation bills drafted by the joint interim committee on managed care.
• 2/27/1997: Radio Story - HMO house and senate bills were sent to house and senate floors on the same day. If passed into law, drastic changes can be expected in Managed care.
• 2/27/1997: Radio Story - Missouri legislative comittees have sent HMO reform bills to the floor.
• 2/26/1997: Newspaper Story - House approves restricting HMOs from refusing to include doctors in their plans.
• 2/26/1997: Radio Story - Feature on the legislative debate over partial birth abortions
• 2/24/1997: Radio Story - The House passes legislatin to allow nursing homes to care for mentally ill patients.
• 2/18/1997: Newspaper Story - Legislative committee hears testimoney on proposal to legalize marijuana for medical purposes.
• 2/18/1997: Radio Story - Some state lawmakers want to legalize marijuana for medical purposes.
• 2/18/1997: Radio Story - Alzheimer's Assocation member urges lawmakers to make it easier to strip driver's licenses from impaired drivers.
• 2/17/1997: Radio Story - AIDS victim urges tougher laws against spreading HIV.
• 2/13/1997: Radio Story - Indepth feature on the emergency-care with HMO regulation before the House Critical Issues Committee.
• 2/12/1997: Radio Story - A bill to ban partial birth abortions passed in the Senate.
• 2/11/1997: Radio Story - Witnesses urge committee to pass HMO regulation.
• 2/11/1997: Radio Story - Governor's office voices support for managed care regulation.
• 2/11/1997: Radio Story - Business organizations testify against the HMO regulation bill.
• 2/10/1997: Newspaper Story - The House Critical Issues Committee listened to eight hours of testimony on the managed care regulation package.
• 2/ 6/1997: Newspaper Story - Hookers would be tested under a bill proposed to Missouri lawmakers.
• 2/ 6/1997: Radio Story - Needle Exchange program has been sent to the House floor by the Health Committee.
• 2/ 5/1997: Newspaper Story - Universal health care bill presented to lawmakers with large tax hikes included.
• 2/ 5/1997: Radio Story - Professor helps inner city youth cope with death of friend through art.
• 2/ 5/1997: Radio Story - A bill would make mandatory HIV testing for convicted prostitution.
• 2/ 3/1997: Newspaper Story - 1997 Anti-Abortion Bill
• 1/30/1997: Radio Story - A bill is proposed to stress abstinence in public school sexual education classes.
• 1/22/1997: Newspaper Story - New prisons tops governor's legislative agenda presented to lawmakers.
• 1/22/1997: Radio Story - Missouri's governor calls on legislators to build new prisons and boost education funding, but leaves HMO regulation off his agenda.
• 1/15/1997: Newspaper Story - Freshman Rep. Chuck Graham's HMO hassled him about getting a new seat cushion for his wheelchair.
• 1/15/1997: Newspaper Story - The legislature's managed care commitee files its legislation with one member warning the HMO party is over.
• 1/15/1997: Radio Story - Lawmaker tells HMOs their party in Missouri is over.