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Medicaid Fight Showcases Broader Missouri GOP Effort To Raise Bar For Ballot Initiatives


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Autumn Stultz makes too much money to qualify for Medicaid, but would if Missouri follows through with a ballot initiative that passed last year.
With the legislature refusing to fund expansion, Stultz, who works as a caregiver for her mother in Springfield, is understandably anxious about whether she can afford medical care
for herself.
“They’re not listening to the Missouri voters. They’re not listening to their constituents,” Stultz said. “And it’s really ticking a lot of people off.”
Republicans have put forth a number of reasons why they’re not funding Medicaid expansion, primarily how they don’t want to saddle the state with future financial commitments. But the debate over that ballot item is part of a broader aversion among some Republicans to the initiative petition process. And Missouri is following other GOP-led states in trying to curtail groups from getting big policy proposals up for a publi ....

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Medicaid Fight Showcases Broader Missouri GOP Effort To Raise Ballot Initiative Bar


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Missouri lawmakers are mulling whether to make it harder to pass ballot initiatives.
Autumn Stultz makes too much money to qualify for Medicaid, but would if Missouri follows through with a ballot initiative that passed last year.
With the legislature refusing to fund expansion, Stultz, who works as a caregiver for her mother in Springfield, is understandably anxious about whether she can afford medical care
for herself.
“They’re not listening to the Missouri voters. They’re not listening to their constituents,” Stultz said. “And it’s really ticking a lot of people off.”
Republicans have put forth a number of reasons why they’re not funding Medicaid expansion, primarily how they don’t want to saddle the state with future financial commitments. But the debate over that ballot item is part of a broader aversion among some Republicans to the initiative petition process. And Missouri is following other GOP-led states in trying to curtail gro ....

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Quade, Stephens have different views on performance of former Missouri health director Williams (AUDIO)


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Quade, Stephens have different views on performance of former Missouri health director Williams (AUDIO)
Two key Missouri lawmakers from opposite parties view Tuesday’s resignation of state Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) Director Dr. Randall Williams very differently.
Chairman Stephens says Williams did a fine job.
“We have lived through the year from hell that everybody got thrust into falling off a cliff into a dark abyss,” Stephens says.
Stephens says Dr. Williams never intended to stay in the position permanently, adding that his understanding is that Dr. Williams’ wife never moved to Missouri from North Carolina. Stephens also says Dr. Williams was responsive to lawmakers in both parties. ....

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