House health committee gives do-pass recommendation to bill for lower-cost health product

The Missouri House Committee on Health and Mental Health voted 12–2, with one present, to give House Bill 366 a "do pass" recommendation after a brief executive-session debate about whether the measure's insurance-like product would leave gaps in preventive coverage.

The recommendation came during an executive session after Chair Stinnett moved that "House Bill 366 be voted do pass." The committee took the motion to roll-call vote and the chair announced the tally after the vote.

Representative Applebaum, who spoke against the bill, said she could not support the measure because it would not provide preventive care protections required under federal law and would leave patients exposed. "Until it happens to you, you can't possibly really know what it feels…