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Campaign workers David Woodruff, left, and Jason White, right, deliver boxes of Medicaid expansion initiative signatures to the Missouri secretary of state s office in Jefferson City, Mo. on May 1, 2020.
Thursday, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that an additional 275,000 low-income individuals in the state are again eligible for publicly-funded health care.
Missouri voters successfully pushed through a state constitutional amendment on the ballot last August to adopt Medicaid expansion, but the Republican-dominated legislature refused to implement it, prompting Gov. Mike Parson, also a Republican, to pull the plug on plans to bolster the health care program.
(Thirty-eight states, including red ones, have either expanded Medicaid or are in the process of expanding it.)
Springfield News-Leader
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Medicaid expansion amendment passed by a majority of voters last August did not violate the state constitution, overturning a lower court ruling in a victory for proponents of expansion.
Missouri s highest court unanimously determined that a circuit court judge was incorrect in ruling that Amendment 2, the 2020 ballot initiative passed by 53 percent of Missouri voters, was unconstitutional. The ruling will likely set the state on a path to expand its low-income health care program, MO HealthNet, to include roughly 275,000 additional Missourians. The General Assembly chose to appropriate funds for the MO HealthNet programs for fiscal year 2022, the court s opinion said. This was one of presumably thousands of difficult decisions made each year during the appropriation process. . Consequently, the Department of Social Services has appropriation authority to provide services for all individuals eligible f
Missouri Medicaid expansion: State supreme court rules in favor
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