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The online benefits calculator also will provide Missourians a glimpse into the amount of government subsidies they can expect to receive to offset actual out-of-pocket policy costs. But those subsidies won't be available to adults below the poverty level because the law assumes those people would get coverage under Medicaid expansion. Missouri is among 26 states that have not expanded coverage under the federal insurance program for poor, another key part of the contentious federal law.
Missouri had about 835,000 uninsured people in 2010 according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Beneath the state's largely hands-off approach to the health insurance exchange, an undercurrent of more forceful opposition to President Barack Obama's signature policy measure remains. Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder is encouraging "active resistance" to the program, urging people last week to register their objections by not signing up for coverage.
In advance of Monday's roll out, state health care advocates warned consumers to be patient and expect some possible technical glitches early on. Program details can be found online at http://www.healthcare.gov.
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