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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 threatened the entire program s fiscal solvency. Although I was never in support of MO HealthNet expansion, I always said that I would uphold the ballot amendment if it passed. The majority of Missouri voters supported it, and we included funds for the expansion in our budget proposal, Parson said in a statement. However, without a revenue source or funding authority from the General Assembly

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