Democrats vow court battle if lawmakers don’t fund Missouri Medicaid expansion
Rudi Keller
Missouri Independent
With the Missouri Senate poised for what promises to be a lengthy debate over Medicaid expansion, legislative Democrats said Tuesday that the fight over funding will move to the courts if lawmakers don’t approve money for the new coverage.
During a rally on the Capitol Building lawn, Senate Democrats promised to push for adding the $1.9 billion expected cost to the state budget. During debate in the Senate Appropriations Committee, a proposal from Sen. Lincoln Hough, R-Springfield, to include Medicaid expansion funding in the budget failed on a tie vote, with Hough and two other Republicans voting with Democrats in favor of the spending.
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By Wicker Perlis & Columbia Missourian
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Tuition could soon be going up for public university students in Missouri, but proponents of the bill passed by the Missouri House on Thursday say that won’t necessarily be a bad thing for all students.
In 2007, members of the General Assembly who were concerned with rising tuition passed a law which required that tuition increases not exceed the rate of inflation. Now, in an amendment to other higher education legislation, Rep. Doug Richey, R-Excelsior Springs, seeks to undo that.
From the House floor Richey explained that the 2007 legislation only limited increases in tuition, not fees. Additionally, he said it required universities to charge the same tuition to all students, regardless of how costly their instruction might be. For example, an engineering or nursing student will pay the same tuition as one studying English. In order to account for this without raising tuition, universities like MU charge
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A class-action lawsuit has been filed in Illinois against all of the major farm input suppliers in the United States.
They have responded by declining comment while the lawsuit is in the courts, by saying they are compliant with all laws and regulations or by declining comment.
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The class-action lawsuits need the name of one complainant and in this case it’s Barbara Piper, the executor of the estate of her husband, Michael Piper, who died in 2017.
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