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THE BIG IDEA
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 19: People enjoy Bryant Park as Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted in New York. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images
A WORLD DIVIDED The world’s top health officials will confront two pandemics when they convene for their annual summit next week. Rich countries stocked with Covid vaccines are speeding ahead, taking steps toward normalcy. But most of the world remains in the grips of the coronavirus as they wait – and wait – for more doses. That tension has been building for weeks, as the world called on wealthy nations like the U.S. to do more while the virus ravages India and Br
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In November, Missourians voted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, granting access to health insurance to roughly 230,000 people living in poverty. Now the state’s Republican legislators are defying the will of their voters by refusing to implement the expansion.
In late April, the Missouri Senate blocked funding for Medicaid expansion. Last week, Gov. Mike Parsons cited the lack of funding to justify withdrawing the expansion plan entirely.
Lawsuits will likely be filed over Parsons’s decision. But this is not the first time Republican leaders in a conservative state have fought to block their voters’ wishes on Medicaid expansion. Utah legislators had sought to scale back the expansion plan approved by their voters in 2018, though they eventually acquiesced once the Trump administration said the legislature’s alternate proposal was not permissible.
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GOP senators oppose the Biden administration’s support for temporarily waiving intellectual property protections for Covid shots.
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