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Health Care In Missouri: Navigating Implementation Of The Federal Affordable Care Act And Medicaid Expansion In A Pushback Environment, Suzanne Discenza
Health Care In Missouri: Navigating Implementation Of The Federal Affordable Care Act And Medicaid Expansion In A Pushback Environment, Suzanne Discenza
Missouri Policy Journal
The year 2014 marks the beginning of the implementation stage for the largest number of federal health care reform policies under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010, and Missouri policymakers, health care providers, health insurance companies, and government agencies alike find themselves desperately trying to navigate uncertain waters. It is no surprise that perhaps the two most contentious and far-reaching policies for states under the PPACA mantra, implementation of state health insurance exchanges for the medically uninsured and state Medicaid expansion, stand to generate the largest number of unintended consequences for Missouri residents and the state’s …
“Greedy Merchants And Idle Women: Economic Crisis And Community In The Lower Missouri Valley, 1819-1825”, Rebekah M.K. Mergenthal
“Greedy Merchants And Idle Women: Economic Crisis And Community In The Lower Missouri Valley, 1819-1825”, Rebekah M.K. Mergenthal
The Confluence (2009-2020)
As a merchant economy emerged in Missouri River towns in the 1820s, so too did a rhetoric about the roles of women in this changing economy. Rebekah Mergenthal examines the debate about changing gender roles in an evolving market economy.
“Modern Day Canary In The Coal Mine”, John A. Crawford
“Modern Day Canary In The Coal Mine”, John A. Crawford
The Confluence (2009-2020)
Salamanders serve an array of functions in the Missouri environment, as this primer on amphibians by John Crawford suggests.
“Missouri Through Soviet Eyes”, Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov
“Missouri Through Soviet Eyes”, Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov
The Confluence (2009-2020)
In 1935, Russian satirists Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov bought a Ford and drove across the United States and back; their observations shaped the ideas of Russians about the United States for some three decades. One of the places they visited was Hannibal, Missouri. Here is their account, including their own photos.
Experience Of The Civil War By The School Sisters Of Notre Dame In Washington, Missouri, Carol Marie Wildt
Experience Of The Civil War By The School Sisters Of Notre Dame In Washington, Missouri, Carol Marie Wildt
The Confluence (2009-2020)
This diary recounts an eyewitness account of "Price's Raid" in 1864 and the experience of religious leaders who stayed behind when Unionists fled Washington, Missouri.
Cash For Clunkers: Did It Work Or Not?, Anthony Clark, Annette Najjar, Ralph Wiedner
Cash For Clunkers: Did It Work Or Not?, Anthony Clark, Annette Najjar, Ralph Wiedner
The Confluence (2009-2020)
The Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act of 2009 (CARS) was supposed to stimulate the American economy with incentives to trade in old gas-guzzling cars for new, more efficient ones. Three economists examine the impact of this program that came to be called “Cash for Clunkers” on the St. Charles County, Missouri, economy.