‘Who do they work for’: On day Medicaid expansion would have started, Missourians protest Tessa Weinberg and Rudi Keller Missouri Independent Protesters had a special delivery for Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday, but they couldn’t reach him. On the day more than 275,000 Missourians would have been eligible to enroll in Medicaid if the voter-approved expansion had gone into effect, a dozen clergy members stood in the entrance to the Missouri Department of Transportation offices with a box in hand. In it were transcripts from more than 150 Missourians who had called to leave Parson a message. There was Susan from Joplin, Phillip from St. Louis, Elizabeth from Wentworth.