Voters Prevail In Missouri: 275,000 To Gain Access To Health Care

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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.)