COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) The Missouri House on Thursday passed a budget proposal without funding to pay for Medicaid expansion in an attempt to thwart the program. Republican House Budget.
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House Speaker Rob Vescovo, R-Arnold, speaks with House Budget Chairman Cody Smith, R-Carthage, during the Nov. 10, 2020 special session.
The $1.6 billion cost of expanding Medicaid to approximately 275,000 uninsured Missourians has been segregated from other spending in the upcoming budget year by moving it into a separate appropriation bill.
The move has Democrats wondering if House Republicans are looking for a way to avoid funding the new health care program and a leading Senate Republican suggesting it may be a path to renewing legal challenges to expansion.
Instead of adding expenses for the newly eligible to individual spending lines in appropriation bills for mental health, senior care, hospitalizations and other services, the bill filed by House Budget Committee Chairman Cody Smith, R-Carthage, would pay for all care needed by the expansion clients.
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Missouri will demand repayment of any unemployment money it paid in error to residents since the COVID-19 pandemic began regardless of whether the overpayments came from state or federal funds, the director of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations said Monday