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Posted By: Parker Padgett July 22, 2021 @ 9:48 pm Local News, News, Uncategorized
ST. LOUIS (AP) The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the state’s voter-approved Medicaid expansion plan, overturning a lower court’s ruling that the constitutional amendment would wrongfully force lawmakers to set aside additional money.
The unanimous decision sends the case back to Cole County Circuit Court, where Judge Jon Beetem last month ruled the amendment unconstitutional. Supreme Court judges wrote that the plan doesn’t put limits on the Legislature’s budgeting powers.
“An initiative that simply costs money to implement does not necessarily require the appropriation of funds,” judges wrote, “so long as the General Assembly maintains discretion in appropriating funds to implement that initiative.”
Missourinet
Missouri’s Medicaid expansion lawsuit case is now in the hands of the seven-member state Supreme Court. The court heard about 35 minutes of oral arguments Tuesday morning in Jefferson City.
Missouri Solicitor General D. John Sauer addresses Judge Jon Edward Beetem on June 21, 2021 in Cole County Circuit Court in Jefferson City (file photo courtesy of Jefferson City News-Tribune pool photographer Julie Smith)
Their attorney, Chuck Hatfield, says Missouri lawmakers approved Medicaid expansion when they approved the state’s $11 billion Medicaid budget. Hatfield says the voters have spoken, by approving Amendment Two in August.
“It’s very unusual to have a lawsuit after the election, about how the initiative was adopted. And I’m not sure they (Missouri Supreme Court) have any good law on exactly what you’re supposed to do,” Hatfield told Capitol reporters at the Supreme Court, after Tuesday’s arguments.