Health Care

Sedalia, Mo. – Gov. Jay Nixon visited Bothwell Regional Health Center in Sedalia today (April 9) to call on legislators to prevent further damage to the economy and stop flow of taxpayer dollars to other states as a result of the General Assembly’s inaction on Medicaid.

The University of Central Missouri will host the Affordable Health Care Act – Health Insurance Enrollment Fair 3 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 13 and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 15 at the James C. Kirkpatrick Library, located at the corner of Maguire and Clark streets in Warrensburg.

The Obama administration got an enormous victory on Thursday when the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold the President’s signature achievement: the 2010 health care law. And in a surprise to many court watchers, it was Chief Justice John Roberts who sided with the more liberal justices and wrote the majority opinion.