Um Health Initiative Stalls ; Funding for Preparing to Care Unlikely.

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The Senate's top budget writer says it is unlikely that funding for a plan to pump more health-care professionals intoMissouri's work forcewill make it into the budget.

Efforts to include $13.4 million for the Preparing to Care initiative faltered in the Missouri House. House Budget Chairman Allen Icet, R-Wildwood, said he did not want to allocate money to a program he said could have trouble being sustained in tough budgetary times.

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Um Health Initiative Stalls ; Funding for Preparing to Care Unlikely.

And House Speaker Rod Jetton, R-Marble Hill, opposed cutting Access Missouri scholarships, which is in line for $100 million. That amount would exte...

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