It s just shocking : How Missouri Republican politics drove twin crises in Medicaid Jonathan Shorman and Jeanne Kuang, The Kansas City Star
May 23 Mike Levitt s nursing homes have experienced a difficult 14 months.
Still recovering after being ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, Levitt s Tutera Senior Living & Health Care, which operates five facilities in the Kansas City region, suddenly finds itself at the edge of financial oblivion.
Missouri lawmakers are at fault.
The General Assembly adjourned earlier this month without renewing a tax that funds vast swaths of Medicaid in Missouri. Nursing homes are heavily reliant on Medicaid patients, who have spent down their savings and now depend on the program to pay for their care.
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Planned Parenthood Advocates in Missouri Calls on Legislature to Pass Medicaid Funding Without Restrictions
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Missouri House of Representatives Speaker Rob Vescovo, R-Arnold, lowers the gavel signaling the conclusion of the First Regular Session of the 101st General Assembly
Convened on the very day that Donald Trump tried to overthrow American democracy, the recently concluded session of the Missouri General Assembly might have evolved as a paean to the wannabe oligarch.
It didn’t.
Missouri’s Republican Party proved notable more for fission than fiction by session’s end. Despite their 70-percent-plus stranglehold in both chambers, GOP legislators displayed an astounding lack of unity and fealty to Trump’s central disorganizing principles.
Of course there were some awful top-line results from the session. The Republicans’ scandalous refusal to follow the state constitution and expand Medicaid coverage was and is unconscionable. So was the customary harlotry to gun zealots. And an attack on public education via private-school vouchers. And so on.