Judge expected to issue final order on Missouri Medicaid expansion on Friday missourinet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from missourinet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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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.
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The Missouri Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday morning in Jefferson City in one of the biggest cases the court has faced in recent memory: Missouri’s Medicaid expansion lawsuit case. Oral arguments will begin Tuesday at 11 a.m.
Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Edward Beetem views a slide presentation from attorney Chuck Hatfield during a June 21st hearing in Jefferson City on Missouri’s Medicaid expansion lawsuit (file photo courtesy of News-Tribune” pool photographer Julie Smith)
It’s a high-profile case that impacts about 275,000 potential new Medicaid recipients. At least ten friend of the Court briefs have been filed, by groups that support and oppose Judge Beetem’s decision.
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‘Who do they work for’: On day Medicaid expansion would have started, Missourians protest
Tessa Weinberg and Rudi Keller
Missouri Independent
Protesters had a special delivery for Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday, but they couldn’t reach him.
On the day more than 275,000 Missourians would have been eligible to enroll in Medicaid if the voter-approved expansion had gone into effect, a dozen clergy members stood in the entrance to the Missouri Department of Transportation offices with a box in hand.
In it were transcripts from more than 150 Missourians who had called to leave Parson a message. There was Susan from Joplin, Phillip from St. Louis, Elizabeth from Wentworth.