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2006 Health Stories

• 12/13/2006: Newspaper Story - President Dan Mehan applauds proposal for premium offsets for small businesses.
• 12/ 6/2006: Newspaper Story - The governor is expected to release a new health care program for uninsured Missourians in January.
• 12/ 5/2006: Radio Story - The Missouri Health Department has evacuated three of its buildings due to safety concerns. The department was worried about the amount of snow on roofs of the buildings.
• 11/27/2006: Newspaper Story - A fire in a assisted living facility in Southwest Missouri kills 10
• 11/27/2006: Radio Story - The southern Missouri nursing home where 10 people died early Monday morning had no sprinkler system. Rachel Bunning has more from the state Capitol.
• 11/16/2006: Radio Story - The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is facing a lawsuit by an ex-employee who says she was wrongly fired after reporting the department's misuse of federal grants.
• 11/15/2006: Radio Story - The Supreme Court heard testimony today concerning Gov. Matt Blunt's law creating civil liability for adults who
• 11/15/2006: Radio Story - The Supreme Court heard arguments on an anti-abortion law.
• 11/14/2006: Radio Story - The governor's office has been meeting to develop proposals for the Medicaid reform program expected to take effect in June 2008. But information about these meetings is unavailable to the public.
• 11/ 8/2006: Newspaper Story - Representatives from organizations opposing Amendment 2 say they aren't giving up the fight to educate Missourians on the true nature of the initiative.
• 11/ 6/2006: Radio Story - Missouri's Department of Health wants to stick to their abstinence education plan
• 11/ 6/2006: Radio Story - The state's leading opponent to stem cell research will start election night by slipping into his running shoes. Hillari Duthoo has more from the state Capitol.
• 11/ 3/2006: Radio Story - When residents go to the polls on Tuesday they will vote on whether to amend Missouri's constitution to maintain access to stem cell research. Rachel Bunning has more from the Capitol.
• 10/31/2006: Radio Story - Missouri's state pharmacy program Missouri Rx is growing.
• 10/27/2006: Newspaper Story - The 100-word summary of Amendment 2 that is set to appear on the ballot Nov. 7 is the center of the debate for some opponents of the initiative.
• 10/25/2006: Newspaper Story - An ad created by the Vitae Caring Foundation, a group releasing educational ads about stem cell research, featuring an emotional college student is really an actress.
• 10/19/2006: Radio Story - Missouri families may be seeing a decrease in their bank account balance as the rise in health insurance outpaces people's wages.
• 10/18/2006: Newspaper Story - James and Virginia Stower, both native Missourians, and both cancer survivors,have provided nearly 97% of funds backing the initiative in 2006.
• 10/11/2006: Radio Story - The Supreme Court ruled today that the tobacco tax amendment will be allowed on the ballot on Nov. 7.
• 10/11/2006: Radio Story - St. Louis county's council chairman is pushing for a smoke-free city. Fanna Haile-Selassie has more from the Capitol.
• 9/21/2006: Radio Story - Opponents and proponents of the stem cell ballot fight for voters through an ad campaign battle.
• 9/20/2006: Radio Story - Missouri Partners in Crisis forms as an advocacy for awareness of mental illness
• 9/19/2006: Radio Story - Missouri's Health Department is offering advice to those with the same medical problem that led to the resignation of state's Higher Education commissioner.
• 9/18/2006: Radio Story - The FDA has now identified cases of E. coli in several states, but Missouri is not getting involved in the investigation. Robbie Fisher has more from Jefferson City.
• 9/18/2006: Radio Story - Illinios and Nebraska now report cases of E.Coli
• 9/ 8/2006: Radio Story - A Circuit Court judge said he would make a ruling on the proposed tobacco tax measure on Monday
• 8/30/2006: Newspaper Story - The governor approved almost $1 million in tax credits for Missouri not-for-profits, including Boone Hospital Foundation
• 8/28/2006: Newspaper Story - Missouri hospitals will voluntarily ban smoking on campuses starting Friday
• 8/23/2006: Radio Story - Mental Health Commission releases 23 recommendations
• 8/23/2006: Newspaper Story - The Mental Health Commission released a report with 23 recommendations for mental health facilities.
• 5/13/2006: Newspaper Story - The biggest failed issue of the 2006 Missouri legislative session very well could be efforts to deal with the June 30, 2008 termination of the state's largest welfare program - Medicaid.
• 5/11/2006: Radio Story - Friday is the last day of Missouri's legislative session and assisted living facilities issues are some of the many being discussed in Missouri's Capitol.
• 5/10/2006: Newspaper Story - The Medicaid provider fraud bill that has passed in the Senate awaits a House vote.
• 5/ 8/2006: Radio Story - St. Charles Representative Cynthia Davis has proposed a bill that would ban interest groups like Planned Parenthood from sex education classes.
• 5/ 3/2006: Radio Story - President Bush's new bird flu preparedness plan gives responsibility to local government.
• 5/ 3/2006: Newspaper Story - Social Services received a 13 percent increase in the 2007 budget
• 5/ 3/2006: Radio Story - If bird flu were to hit Missouri, the state doesn't have the medical capabilities to keep up with the amount of outrbeaks.
• 4/25/2006: Newspaper Story - The outbreak of mumps in the Midwest is spreading to Missouri.
• 4/25/2006: Radio Story - The bill will prohibit those who have performed abortions from playing a part in sex education.
• 4/19/2006: Radio Story - Debate centered around embryonic stem cell research and cloning, while the bill didn't address either subject.
• 4/19/2006: Radio Story - Missouri Department of Agriculture Veterinarian Taylor Woods suggests Missouri's hot summer might help fend off the bird flu if it comes to the US.
• 4/19/2006: Newspaper Story - The Missouri House perfected a bill Wednesday that would allocate money to fund adult stem cell research.
• 4/18/2006: Radio Story - In a 7-1 vote, members of the Senate Transportation Committee voted to move HB 1532, a bill on auto emissions in St. Louis, to the Senate floor for further debate.
• 4/14/2006: Newspaper Story - The Ticket to Work bill would restore medical assistance to disabled workers.
• 4/11/2006: Radio Story - In townhall fashion, the president addressed the administration's new Medicare plan.
• 4/11/2006: Newspaper Story - Pharmacists converged on the capitol steps to blast the new Medicare prescription drug program hours after President George Bush promoted the plan a few blocks away.
• 4/11/2006: Radio Story - President Bush visited with Missouri seniors and watched them sign up for Medicare Part D Tuesday.
• 4/11/2006: Radio Story - The democratic party questioned Sen. Jim Talent's Medicare success numbers for Missourians saying they are misleading and inaccurate.
• 4/11/2006: Newspaper Story - Rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicaid system is the bill's aim. Gov. Blunt's endorsement came on the same day.
• 4/11/2006: Newspaper Story - Rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicaid system is the bill's aim. Gov. Blunt's endorsement came on the same day.
• 4/ 6/2006: Radio Story - The House voted to pass a bill that repeals the Missouri's helmet law.
• 4/ 5/2006: Radio Story - Missourians with mentally disabled family members went straight to Jefferson City to keep lawmakers from cutting their loved ones' lifelines.
• 4/ 4/2006: Radio Story - A house bill will give motorcyclists the option of not wearing a helment.
• 4/ 4/2006: Radio Story - Missouri's House passed a bill allowing tax breaks for donations to certain pregnancy resource centers. But those centers offering information on abortion are not eligible for the incentive.
• 3/29/2006: Newspaper Story - Supporters of disability rights in Missouri rallied at the Capitol. Republican and Democrat leaders spoke to the crowd.
• 3/28/2006: Newspaper Story - More than a hundred men and women came to the Capitol for a rally and to talk to legislators.
• 3/28/2006: Newspaper Story - As hunting seasons approach, hunters must stay abreast of bird flu activity in the U.S.
• 3/28/2006: A Senate Committee seeks to root out Medicaid fraud and create a "Missouri Prescription Drug Website."
• 3/23/2006: Radio Story - Missouri students are spending their spring break on the coast, but not in the way you'd normally think.
• 3/15/2006: Newspaper Story - House health care appropriations bills are debated and decided
• 3/14/2006: Radio Story - Soon Missourians could compare prices online for their prescription drugs.
• 3/14/2006: Radio Story - Mad Cow disease is being prevented in Missouri by constant surveillence and testing for the disease.
• 3/14/2006: Newspaper Story - Creation of a Medicaid fraud bill follows two months of extensive testimony.
• 3/10/2006: Newspaper Story - Financial aid for disabled worker's personal care assistance in jeopardy.
• 3/ 8/2006: Radio Story - The mild Missouri winter has caused an early emergence of the tick population, possibly leading to increased incidents of disease.
• 3/ 7/2006: Radio Story - Senators in Missouri's General Assembly debated a long list of sex offense bills, including one to update and refine the Sex Offender Registry.
• 3/ 6/2006: Radio Story - Republican Senator Matt Bartle is proposing a bill that would take money from the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement and put it into stem cell research
• 3/ 1/2006: Radio Story - The once cut Ticket to Work program, which allows disabled Missourians to work and collect state health insurance, is on it's way to being reistated. Democrats aren't happy with the bill.
• 3/ 1/2006: Newspaper Story - The Missouri House restored some medical assistance to certain disabled workers.
• 3/ 1/2006: Newspaper Story - Missouri amps up preparations for a possible bird flu pandemic
• 3/ 1/2006: Radio Story - Senator Jason Crowell says Roe v. Wade was a wrong Supreme Court opinion and he wants a Missouri constitutional amendment to ban abortion all together.
• 2/28/2006: Radio Story - The actions of one rural fire department spark discussion in Missouri's General Assembly.
• 2/22/2006: Radio Story - Expert witness Rick Williams says the Qui Tam provision would help in catching violaters of Medicaid fraud law.
• 2/22/2006: Newspaper Story - The Special Committee to Investigate Medicaid Fraud held the third of three expert witness testimony hearings on Wednesday. Giving whistleblowers financial incentive to reveal Medicaid fraud has been a main point of interest for the committee in rooting out waste and abuse in the system. The committee plans to form suggestions on how to fix fraud within the state's Medicaid system by the March 1st bill filing deadline.
• 2/21/2006: Radio Story - Opponents to the closing of the St. Louis habilitation center say that moving patients out of their environment could cause their death.
• 2/21/2006: Radio Story - The governor recommended that the facility be closed last year.
• 2/14/2006: Newspaper Story - Hundreds of people rallied Tuesday to protest last year's Medicaid cuts.
• 2/14/2006: Radio Story - Attorney General Jay Nixon spoke at a rally and voiced his concern over Governor Matt Blunt's plans for Medicaid.
• 2/14/2006: Radio Story - Hundreds gathered in the state capitol's rotunda to talk about cuts made to Missouri Health Care.
• 2/13/2006: Radio Story - Republican Representative Charles Portwood wants to revise Missouri's Ticket to Work program.
• 2/13/2006: Newspaper Story - Rep. Charles Portwood, R-Ballwin, hopes to revise the Ticket-to-Work program that was eliminated last year.
• 2/13/2006: Newspaper Story - Portwood wants to reintroduce the Ticket to Work program that was eliminated last year.
• 2/ 9/2006: Newspaper Story - Sen. Chuck Graham was released from St. Mary's Hospital in Jefferson City where he was being treated for a staph infection
• 2/ 8/2006: Radio Story - The State Senate heard a measure Wednesday to create a fund to update paper medical records to an electronic form.
• 2/ 7/2006: Newspaper Story - Sen. Chuck Graham, D-Columbia, was admitted to St. Mary's Hospital in Jefferson City on Monday for treatment of a staph infection on his leg. He is expected to be released Wednesday.
• 1/30/2006: Radio Story - The MOHELA board of director nominee needs to be confirmed by Feb. 4 or he will lose his position.
• 1/30/2006: Radio Story - Senator Matt Bartle calls for a rare round-table in hope to coordinate the legislature's efforts in protecting against and prosecuting sexual offenders.
• 1/24/2006: Newspaper Story - Missouri Senators were given a first-hand demonstration of the lethal effects from paper medical records.
• 1/23/2006: Radio Story - The Children's Services Comission listened to child welfare agencies and researchers who all agreed meth has a devastating effect on a child's life.
• 1/23/2006: Radio Story - The house Democrats announced a healthcare agenda Monday that would restore Medicaid to thousands of Missourians.
• 1/18/2006: Radio Story - Speakers discussed their opposition to stem cell research and human cloning.