WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill met this week with the Missouri Hospital Association to discuss ways to improve healthcare in Missouri, including ways to protect Medicare and help hospitals.

McCaskill met with Herb B. Kuhn, President and CEO of the Missouri Hospital Association, along with hospital leaders from across the state.

“These folks are working hard every day to maintain strong hospitals across Missouri,” McCaskill said. “The patients at our state’s hospitals deserve the best healthcare this country can offer, and I’m confident that by working together we can make that happen.”

McCaskill joined the Senate in 2007 pledging to Missouri’s families to finally tackle the country’s broken health care system – a system that was contributing to budget-busting deficits, leaving millions of Americans without access to quality care, and subjecting millions more to the abusive practices of big insurance companies. In the years since, McCaskill made good on that promise, voting to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program to offer coverage to more Missouri kids, and helping pass the Affordable Care Act that is already working to protect families from insurance industry abuses, slow the growth of health care costs, and expand coverage to millions of Americans.