$1.6B offered to Kansas and Missouri for Medicaid expansion, but GOP doesn't want it Jonathan Shorman and Jeanne Kuang, The Kansas City Star Apr. 7—The number of patients visiting Health Partnership Clinic in Olathe and Paola dropped nearly a third last year as the pandemic took hold. And yet, the number without insurance surged by 10% and is still growing. Officials there, and at similar Kansas and Missouri clinics serving low-income patients, say such numbers highlight a burgeoning need for Medicaid expansion. It would provide health coverage to hundreds of thousands of people across both states who make too much for Medicaid but not enough for subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.