December 28, 2023 Repeal Certificate of Need For the Health and Welfare of Missourians January 30, 2023 House Bill 777: Certificate of Need December 29, 2022 Certificate of Need Repeal Must Become a Legislative Priority June 25, 2021 Medicaid Expansion Ruling, Special Session and the Cost of Tax Subsides May 27, 2021 Missouri's Health Facilities Review Committee Shouldn't Exist February 26, 2021 Three Health Care Experts Reiterate Importance of Making COVID Reforms Permanent September 24, 2020 SMI Podcast: The Case For Choice In Health Care August 20, 2020 Cato's Michael Cannon Visits the Podcast August 14, 2020 Agreeing and Disagreeing on Health Care Reform July 15, 2020 Call it What it is: Medicaid Expansion March 11, 2020 In Crisis, Supply-Side Healthcare Reforms Are Even More Important February 19, 2020 Discussion on Medicaid expansion impact in Missouri February 10, 2020 Short-Term Medical Insurance: A Step Forward for Health Choice November 21, 2019 Will Missouri Reform Its Health Insurance Regulations in 2020? November 19, 2019 Short-Term Medical Insurance Makes the News Again November 18, 2019 Legislators Shouldn't Neglect Health Care Reform Opportunities in 2020 November 14, 2019 "Medicare for All" Remains a Terrible, Terrible Idea October 9, 2019 Medicaid Expansion Costs September 10, 2019 Testimony: The Importance of Empowering Patients September 7, 2019 Kansas Outguns Missouri in Regulatory Border War for Hospitals April 29, 2019 End Certificate of Need in Missouri April 23, 2019 House Bill 83 and Short-term Medical Insurance February 13, 2019 End the Cronyism: Repeal Certificate of Need in Missouri December 7, 2018 Patrick Ishmael Discusses the Future of Health Care on KWMU-St. Louis December 6, 2018 Doctor, Former Insurance Exec, and Think-Tank Rep Debate the Future of U.S. Health Care October 5, 2018 HHS Secretary Talks Up Short-Term Medical Insurance Plans August 29, 2018 Rest in Peace, Stan Brock February 28, 2018 Short-Term Medical Insurance Proposal Offers Opportunity to Get People Coverage January 30, 2018 Yes, the Cost of Medicaid Has Exploded January 16, 2018 2018 Blueprint: Certificate of Need December 22, 2017 In Arkansas, 80,000 Ineligible Medicaid Recipients Removed from Rolls December 20, 2017 NoMORedTape Respondents Seek Hundreds of Regulatory Reforms October 31, 2017 What Is Direct Primary Care? This Fun Video Explains It October 27, 2017 Is Amazon Getting into the Pharmacy Business? Let's Hope So September 6, 2017 Ouch--Missouri Individual Health Insurance Premiums To Rise by Double Digits in 2018 August 22, 2017 Obamacare's Total Eclipse of Bad Policy June 26, 2017 Dx: Diagnosing American Healthcare, Part I May 24, 2017 Breaking: Blue Cross KC to Leave Obamacare Exchanges May 4, 2017 House Vote The First of Many Important Health Care Milestones April 3, 2017 Don't Count Health Care Chickens Before They've Hatched February 22, 2017 Right to Try Becomes a National Issue February 20, 2017 "Right to Shop" Idea Promotes Health Care Shopping February 17, 2017 Humana Announces 2018 Departure from Exchanges February 10, 2017 Medicaid Waiver Request A Great Idea February 7, 2017 Where Are the Certificate of Need Bills? November 28, 2016 Microhospitals Booming-But Not in Missouri, Thanks to Certificate of Need November 3, 2016 And Now Anthem Floats Possibility of Leaving the Exchanges November 2, 2016 Video: Opening Up Missouri's Healthcare Market November 2, 2016 ER Visits Spike With Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion October 31, 2016 Rural Missourians Whacked With Higher Obamacare Rates, Fewer Options October 27, 2016 Maps: Average Insurance Exchange Rates in Missouri, By County October 26, 2016 Chart: 2017 Obamacare Premiums in Your County October 20, 2016 Like an Exploding Cell Phone, Obamacare Should Be Replaced October 7, 2016 Making Health Care Better Through Licensure Reform September 1, 2016 Think Fewer Insurers is Bad? Wait Until We Have Just One. July 20, 2016 For Better Health Care Access, Pursue Interstate Licensing May 31, 2016 Session Notes: Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion Fails Again May 3, 2016 Wyoming Joins the Direct Primary Care Party April 27, 2016 House Passes Medicaid Audit Bill January 31, 2016 Interstate Licensing and the Quest to Expand Health Care Access January 29, 2016 No Surprise: Health Care Spending Accelerated in 2014 January 28, 2016 Study Finds Health Care Price Transparency Should Be a Top Policy Priority December 2, 2015 Physician Survey: Direct Primary Care Growing In Popularity, Particularly With Younger Doctors November 30, 2015 Missouri's Certificate of Need Law Needs to Go November 28, 2015 Cost "Intimately Linked" with Coverage November 24, 2015 Study: Direct Primary Care and Concierge Care Different in More Ways Than One November 24, 2015 Obamacare Cronyism: Where Does the Bureaucracy End and the Insurance Industry Begin? November 6, 2015 Direct Primary Care Makes a Splash in Springfield November 5, 2015 Kansas City Obamacare Insurance Premiums Expected to See Double-Digit Hike November 5, 2015 Government-Run Obamacare Co-ops Begin Their Downward Spirals October 29, 2015 Ohio's Medicaid Explosion Under Obamacare Is a Warning for Missouri October 7, 2015 Prompted by Regulators, Truman Medical Closes Psychiatric Emergency Room October 5, 2015 Could Direct Primary Care Be An Answer to Post-Obamacare Access Problems? October 2, 2015 Where Obamacare Leaves Questions, Direct Primary Care May Offer Answers September 28, 2015 Michael Cannon on the Future of Medicine: "So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" September 28, 2015 "That's Crazy!": Consumer Reports Video Highlights Health Care Billing Problems August 26, 2015 Department Testimony Confirms: One-in-Seven Missourians on Medicaid August 24, 2015 IRS Obamacare Ruling Buffets Some Missouri Graduate Students July 31, 2015 Pew: Medicaid Taking "Growing Slice of States' Dollars" July 28, 2015 Health Care Price Transparency Report: Missouri Gets an "F" July 27, 2015 Charity Clinic Coming to St. Louis Area Next Month July 22, 2015 Post-Obamcare Medicaid Enrollment Far Outpacing State Projections June 10, 2015 Are Work Requirements and Premiums On the Horizon for Medicaid's Able-Bodied? June 9, 2015 White House Report Is the Same Tired Medicaid Message, but Newly Packaged May 6, 2015 Passed: Direct Care Bill Moves On to the Governor May 5, 2015 Obamacare Expanders' Emergency Room Claims: Still False April 23, 2015 Health Care Bills On the Move from the House to the Senate April 17, 2015 What Does It Mean to "Have Health Care"? March 30, 2015 Audit: Medicaid Program Rife With Problems March 18, 2015 In Support of An Outside Audit of Missouri's Medicaid Program March 16, 2015 Florida Story Shows Risk of Conflating Medicaid Waivers With "Block Grants" March 13, 2015 Show-Me Now! Wrapping Up Obamacare? March 4, 2015 Proposed Senate Bill Would End Obamacare Medicaid Expansion Nationwide March 2, 2015 King v. Burwell: A Quick Preview February 26, 2015 Constitutional Law Expert Joshua Hawley Weighs in on Obamacare at Policy Forum February 9, 2015 Tennessee, Wyoming Reject Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion (Again) January 18, 2015 No, Missouri Is Not Giving Its Money To Other States By Rejecting Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion January 15, 2015 Embarrassment State: New York Denies Charity Care to Its Neediest December 11, 2014 Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion as "Job Creator"? Not So Fast December 9, 2014 Gruber on Arkansas Private Option: "Mathematically Impossible" to Be Budget Neutral October 29, 2014 Indebting Missouri's Children and Expanding Government? That's Just Wimpy October 22, 2014 Missouri's Medicaid Program Striking Out Intended Beneficiaries October 15, 2014 Increasing the Health Care Supply to Meet Health Care Demand October 14, 2014 Free-Market Health Practitioners Get a Group June 18, 2014 Thank Obamacare: Buchanan County, Mo., Tops List For Insurance Rate Hikes On Men June 16, 2014 The Other Upset: Arkansas Obamacaid Architect Loses State Senate Primary May 17, 2014 Landmark 'Right to Try' Legislation Crosses The Finish Line May 16, 2014 Medicaid Expansion Push Fails Again; Ditch The Spending And Enact Real Reform May 12, 2014 Thoughts on Medicaid, Right to Try, and Paycheck Protection As Legislative Session Wraps Up April 24, 2014 Show-Me Now! Medicaid Transformation? April 3, 2014 Inexcusably, Medicaid Expansion Proposal Omits More Than $1 Billion In New State Costs April 1, 2014 Expansion Is Wrong Move For Medicaid March 24, 2014 Bad Data, Bad Tech and No Expansion Lead to Fall in Missouri Medicaid Enrollment March 14, 2014 Move Missouri's Medicaid Program Forward, Not Backward March 12, 2014 Hospital Price Transparency Bill A Bold And Necessary Reform March 7, 2014 'Right To Try' Bill Heard In Missouri House February 21, 2014 Medicaid Expansion Proponents Should Be Faithful To Missouri's Values February 4, 2014 Tell Us Your Obamacare Story January 30, 2014 Reform, Not Spending, Should Top Agenda January 16, 2014 Show-Me Forum: Hot Issues for 2014: Missouri Legislature and Healthcare January 16, 2014 Missouri Leading On At Least One Health Care Reform January 7, 2014 Oregon Study: Medicaid Expansion Increases Emergency Room Use November 27, 2013 What Would A Free-Market Medicaid Reform Look Like? November 11, 2013 The Re-Repackaging Of 'Obamacaid' In Missouri October 30, 2013 Uh Oh: Are The Exchanges Goosing State Medicaid Rolls? October 27, 2013 Surprise! Rural America Not Seeing Lower Insurance Prices, Either October 26, 2013 How Many Missourians Have Gotten Coverage Through The Exchange? Insurers Keep Mum October 23, 2013 HealthCare.Gov Now Delivering . . . Incorrect Plan Pricing September 26, 2013 HHS Report Confirms: Insurance Rates In Missouri Exchange To Rocket Upward September 23, 2013 Pro-Obamacare Saint Louis Hospital Cutting Back Benefits To Part-Timers … Apparently Because Of Obamacare September 12, 2013 From The Jaws Of Defeat: Volunteer Health Services Act Veto Overridden August 29, 2013 Time For A Game Of 'UNION… OR… TEA PARTY!' August 21, 2013 Part-Time Nation: Forever 21 Stores Cap Staff Hours August 14, 2013 Medicaid Expansion Under Obamacare Is Wrong For Missouri August 6, 2013 No, The Volunteer Health Services Act Didn't Offer 'Blanket Immunity' To Out-of-State Doctors July 29, 2013 Obamacare-Enforcing IRS Employees Don't Want Obamacare Enforced Against Them July 11, 2013 Quick Reaction To Yesterday's Medicaid Hearing In Independence July 10, 2013 Unreal: Governor Nixon Vetoes Volunteer Health Services Act July 3, 2013 Obama Administration Delays Employer Insurance Mandate Penalties Until 2015 May 24, 2013 Another Union Comes Out Against The Affordable Care Act May 20, 2013 The Ayes Don't Have It: Medicaid Expansion Fails In Missouri April 23, 2013 Missouri Should Lower Barriers for Out-of-State Charitable Medical Missions April 17, 2013 It Begins: Roofers' Union 'Seeks Repeal/Reform Of Affordable Care Act' April 9, 2013 On The Medicaid Proposal Coursing Through The House April 1, 2013 ObamaCare could give advantages to some businesses that ship jobs abroad March 26, 2013 Reminder: A Strong Majority Of States 'Remain Either Defiant Or Undecided' About Expanding Medicaid March 22, 2013 Dear Affordable Care Act Supporters: You Call This 'Saving Money'? March 19, 2013 Chart: This Is Not 'Medicaid Reform' March 15, 2013 No, A Medicaid Expansion Would Not Be 'Medicaid Reform' February 14, 2013 The Medicaid Expansion Issue, Bullet-Pointed February 12, 2013 Prospect Of Medicaid Expansion Appears To Have Turned Missouri's Credit Outlook Negative February 11, 2013 Great New Resource For Missouri Health Care News January 30, 2013 Assessing a Very Costly Medicaid Expansion January 29, 2013 State Of The State Address: Simply Irresponsible To Propose Medicaid Expansion January 1, 2013 KTRS TV: Patrick Ishmael Talks Medicaid Expansion December 7, 2012 On the Proposed Medicaid Expansion November 30, 2012 Show-Me Discusses the Medicaid Expansion With Media All Across State November 11, 2012 Nixon: Missouri Will Not Implement Health Insurance Exchange By Federal Deadline September 27, 2012 Watch Live Tonight: John C. Goodman and Curing the Healthcare Crisis September 21, 2012 Oklahoma Challenges Health Care Tax In Federally-Run Insurance Exchanges July 20, 2012 Where Do We Go From Here? – Healthcare Expert Panel Discussion July 16, 2012 No, It Will Cost Missourians Considerably More Than '$20 Per Person' To Expand Medicaid July 9, 2012 Some 'Windfall': Would It Actually Cost Missouri Nearly $800 Million To Expand Medicaid? June 28, 2012 Thoughts On Today's Supreme Court Decision June 25, 2012 Video: Talking Health Care Reform on KSDK Channel 5 (Saint Louis) June 13, 2012 Nullification Is Unconstitutional May 21, 2012 Health Care Scorecard: The Good, The Bad, And The Downright Sad May 18, 2012 Is An Opportunity To Help Medically Underserved About To Be Missed? May 10, 2012 A Rare, Wonderful Opportunity To Deliver Better Health Care To Missouri's Underserved May 9, 2012 A Note Of Praise To The House Health Insurance Committee March 29, 2012 Optometrist Mandate Dies In Senate Education Committee March 27, 2012 Previewing Day Three Of Health Care Reform Oral Arguments March 26, 2012 Previewing Day Two Of Health Care Reform Oral Arguments March 25, 2012 Previewing Day One Of Health Care Reform Oral Arguments March 23, 2012 Reminder: Health Care 'Reform' Law Raises Costs On Young People March 20, 2012 Kudos to Missouri Senate for Blocking Health Exchange February 28, 2012 Missouri Should Lower Barriers For Out-of-State Charitable Medical Missions February 7, 2012 Will Missouri Impose One Mandate As It Fights Another? September 21, 2011 Health Insurance Exchange: Level One Establishment Grant - Project Narrative September 21, 2011 Health Insurance Exchange: Governor's Letter in Support of Establishment Grant (June 28, 2011)