Missouri Republicans Don't Seem to Care That Their Constituents Want Health Care

📆 3/26/2021 4:02 PM
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On Thursday, a plan to expand Medicaid eligibility in Missouri was blocked from reaching the House floor after the Republican-controlled House Budget Committee voted down a bill that would have created a $1.6 billion spending plan for the program. Missouri Republicans claim that the state cannot afford the expansion, an assertion that Democrats in the state dismiss as blatantly false, due to the fact that the state will receive $1.1 billion of funding from the federal government specifically for Medicaid expansion from the recently passed American Rescue Plan. (That’s on top of the $2.8 billion of other federal aid that Missouri will be receiving.)\n

House Budget Committeespending plan for the program. Missouri Republicans claim that the state cannot afford the expansion, an assertion that Democrats in the state dismiss as blatantly false, due to the fact that the state will receive

from the federal government specifically for Medicaid expansion from the recently passed American Rescue Plan. The decision to block the Medicaid funding is in direct opposition to the wishes of Missouri voters, 53% of whom

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