
J, a 41-year-old mother of two in Joplin, has been uninsured for almost seven years and will qualify for Medicaid once...

Elizabeth Lewis (Kansas City, 2021)
Over the last decade, Elizabeth Lewis has built a career as a nurse practitioner, focusing on women’s health...

Maxine and Ken Horgan (Mountain View, 2021)
Maxine and Ken Horgan are retired volunteers at the Good Samaritan Care Clinic in Mountain View...
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Autumn Stultz (Springfield, 2021)
Autumn is a 31-year-old Springfield resident with a seven-year-old daughter who was dropped from Medicaid unexpectedly...
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C. Garcia (Kansas City, 2021)
Garcia is a fourth-generation military veteran, writer, poet, and activist in Kansas City, MO. After eight years of service...
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Haji Culton (Festus, 2021)
Haji has been living in Festus, MO without insurance for just over 10 years after losing his job and health coverage...
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Brennan England (St. Louis, 2021)
Brennan is a South St. Louis resident, entrepreneur, and elected member of the community improvement district in his neighborhood...

John D. (St. Louis, 2021)
John D. is a firefighter working tirelessly to serve St. Louis during the COVID-19 pandemic. He is also a husband and father of two...
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Mahala Pittman (Festus, 2021)
Mahala Pittman, a 20-year-old college student from Festus, got COVID-19 while she was home for the summer...
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Scott Gulledge (Camdenton, 2021)
Scott works in the mental health field. He knows how to support people in grief and has experienced loss himself, but losing his mother to...

Shan is a St. Louis resident and lifelong Missourian. They have lived for many years with severe ADHD, depression, anxiety, and...

I have been uninsured since the day that I turned 26 years old, so it's been nearly 4 years now. Just a few weeks after I turned 25 years old...

Shannon McKinney (Joplin, 2021)
Shannon McKinney is a Joplin-based staff attorney at Legal Aid of Western Missouri, specializing in housing and consumer law...
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Sam McAninch. (Springfield, 2020)
Sam is a 30-year-old Intensive care float nurse who has worked at Cox Hospital in Springfield for the last 5 years...

Ryan works as a handyman for a local property management company in Joplin. At the end of August 2020, he contracted COVID-19...

Larry Batt (Lebanon, 2020)
Larry is a 57-year-old former carpenter from Lebanon, MO who was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2013. At the time, he...
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Nichelle Harris (Kansas City, 2020)
Nichelle lives with her husband and three children in the Kansas City area, where she works for a heating and cooling service provider...
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Brittney (St. Louis, 2020)
Since 2017, Brittany has relied on Medicaid to provide health care for her three children. She found out they were dropped from coverage...
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When Rai became pregnant at age 19, she was on her mother’s insurance. Unfortunately, her mother did not have pregnancy coverage...

Van and Renda (Sparta, 2020)
Van is a 56-year-old resident of Sparta, Missouri. He and his wife Renda have a variety of illnesses that they try to manage despite...
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Debi Pratt (St. Louis, 2020)
Debi is married, a mother, grandparent, neighbor, active volunteer, and works as an office manager in St. Louis...