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10:03 am
Tue February 26, 2013

Missouri Republicans Outline 'Commonsense Conservative' Medicaid Alternative

Credit Mo. House Communications
State Rep. Jay Barnes (R, Jefferson City) is sponsoring the Republicans' alternative to Mo. Gov. Jay Nixon's (D) proposed Medicaid expansion.
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By Marshall Griffin and Sean Sandefur and The Associated Press

A long-promised Republican alternative to Medicaid expansion was filed today in the Missouri House.

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Medicaid expansion
2:30 pm
Mon February 25, 2013

Two Separate Mo. House Committees Reject Medicaid Expansion Efforts

Credit Marshall Griffin/St. Louis Public Radio
Nearly 100 people crowded into a room at the Mo. Capitol to attend a hearing on HB627, which would have expanded Medicaid in Missouri. The bill was voted down 2-5.
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Medicaid expansion is dead for now in the Missouri House.


First, the House subcommittee that oversees the budgets for the Departments of Health, Mental Health and Social Services voted to approve those agencies budgets without including Governor Jay Nixon’s (D) call to expand Medicaid to an additional 259,000 Missourians next year.  State Representative Sue Allen (R, Town and Country) chairs that subcommittee.


“We can’t afford it…it’s not rocket science," Allen said.  "If we expand, taking federal dollars now, which I do not believe would not use some state (general revenue), even with what we’re told the feds would do now, there will be a time (when) the feds will back off.”

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