Medicaid Expansion – Missouri

Will Missouri Legislature, governor compromise on Medicaid?, By Elizabeth Crisp, January 6, 2013, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Is there a chance for compromise between Democrats who want to expand Missouri’s Medicaid program and Republicans who have come out against the proposal? The Medicaid expansion, an optional provision in the federal Affordable Care Act, would add an estimated 300,000 Missourians to the program. It will be one of the key issues for state lawmakers to decide in the session that begins Wednesday. House Speaker Tim Jones, R-Eureka, has tapped three Republican legislators to come up with ‘innovative’ proposals for the health care program that serves low-income Missourians…”