Missouri Health Insurance

How healthy is living
in Missouri?

Missouri is ranked as the 42nd healthiest state to live in according to the 2012 America's Health Rankings® by the United Health Foundation.

The good news:

• While the Missouri's public health funding lags that of many other states, it increased by $6 per person over the past five years.
• Air quality has improved over the past five years.

The bad news:

• The current ranking of 42nd is the lowest scored by Missouri since the first report, which was issued in 1990.
• The percentage of children in poverty was 12.5 in 2002; in the 2012 report, the rate is 23.1 percent.

Missouri's best and worst category rankings:

• High School Graduation Rate – 9th
• Low Birth Rate – 23rd
• Cardiovascular Deaths – 41st
• Smoking – 42nd
• Infectious Disease – 43rd
• Public Health Funding – 44th

more details

• See the United Health Foundation's latest findings on Missouri.
• Trust for America's Health ia another source for key Missouri health quality findings. In addition, 2010's federal health reform, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), included the creation of a prevention fund to provide more than $16 billion over the next 10 years to invest in effective, proven prevention efforts, like childhood obesity prevention and tobacco cessation, and the site has a report on how it impacts Missouri here.

get local health results

State snapshot too large? Get county-by-county health rankings for Missouri, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Population Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin.

Does Missouri have a health insurance high risk pool?

Missouri Health Insurance Pool
Phone 1-800-843-6447 (All but NW Missouri)
Phone 1-800-645-8346 (NW Missouri)

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Starting in 2010, Missouri started offering health care insurance coverage to residents through the federally established temporary high-risk pool program. To find out more about Missouri's participation, click here.

Risk pools are state-sponsored programs to help people with a history of medical problems in their family to purchase coverage. These pools are for people who can afford to buy health insurance, but are not able to get underwritten in the private market because of a pre-existing health condition. These programs can vary significantly from state to state in price, benefits and number of people served. Often insurance companies doing business in the state are required to contribute to the pool to keep it in the black. In the best cases, they allow people to be able to switch jobs or become self-employed without the fear of losing their health insurance coverage. Read more about risk pools here.

Non-profit sources of health insurance information for Missouri

• The Foundation for Health Coverage Education's mission is to provide simplified public and private health insurance eligibility information in order to help more people access coverage. Here is its guide on how to find health insurance in Missouri.
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is tracking the progress of health insurance reform in each state. Its page for Missouri can be found here.
• The National Committee for Quality Assurance is a private, non-profit organization that, among other things, provides health care plan report cards for consumers. Search for Missouri health insurance plan report cards.

Missouri state government health insurance resources

How did Missouri officials vote on health reform?

H.R.2: Repealing the Health Care Bill

#14

Date of Vote: 1/19/2011 Status: House passed 245-189, 1 not voting

HOUSE|SENATE

1/19/2011--Passed House amended. Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, effective as of its enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by such Act. Repeals the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education and Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective as of the Act's enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by the Act's health care provisions. [more]

Yes (6)

• W. Akin
• Jo Ann Emerson
• Samuel Graves

• Vicky Hartzler
• Billy Long
• Blaine Luetkemeyer

Our
Pick

No (3)

• Russ Carnahan
• William Clay
• Emanuel Cleaver