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Missouri abandons voter-approved Medicaid expansion Reid Wilson © The Hill Missouri abandons voter-approved Medicaid expansion Less than a year after Missouri voters approved a constitutional amendment expanding Medicaid coverage, Gov. Mike Parson (R) said Thursday he will drop plans to implement the expansion after legislators refused to provide funding. Parson sent a letter to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services formally withdrawing plans to expand MO HealthNet, the state's Medicaid program. He said the legislature's refusal to fund the expansion threat...

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Mar 16, 2021 6:00 AM EDT At several points last year, Louise Snodgrass experienced some COVID-like symptoms, but worried each time how much testing or treatment would cost without health insurance. “I would have set up a doctor’s appointment if I had insurance,” said Snodgrass, 26, who works two jobs to make ends meet in Brookings, South Dakota. “Instead I sat there thinking, ‘What the heck am I going to do? I don’t even know if I’m going to get tested.’” Eventually Snodgrass was able to get tested — the result was negative — after a boss ...

Not only is taking action to end poverty a moral imperative, but the stated costs of raising the minimum wage are wildly overblown.

Biden has chance to cut Medicaid deal with Alabama, other red states Updated Feb 18, 2021; Posted Feb 18, 2021 A March 4 rally at the Capitol called for Medicaid expansion. A bill that would have expanded Medicaid coverage in Texas received a hearing in the House, but it didn't advance. (Stephen Spillman/The Austin American-Statesman/TNS)TNS Facebook Share By Noam N. Levey Kaiser Health News (TNS) and Tribune Media Services President Joe Biden has an unexpected opening to cut deals with red states to expand Medicaid, raising the prospect that the new administration c...