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Tag: expanding Medicaid

Screw the poor: Not expanding Medicaid cost red states $2 billion in 2015

October 25, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Politics, Poverty, Republicans, States, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Squandering $2 billion dollars in essentially free money is not what anyone would call “fiscal conservatism.” But that’s exactly what the phony fiscal conservatives

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Opting out of Medicaid expansion: Here’s how many people it hurts

February 7, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Health, Health care, Missouri region, Politics, Poverty, States, Uncategorized One comment

I live in a state whose Republican-controlled legislature decided to opt-out of Medicaid expansion. As you probably remember, expanding Medicaid was a key provision

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The “Cardinal Way”: A model for MO legislature, and others, too

October 30, 2013 Mary Clemons Good government, Health care, Politics, Republicans, Social Sec/Medicare, States Leave a comment

After the St. Louis Cardinals won the [2013] National League Championship Series, it was reported that a rookie player, Seth Maness, said, “It’s a

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Legislators against Medicaid expansion wait in the wings to say, “I told you so.”

July 2, 2013 Mary Clemons Government, Health care, Missouri region, Politics, Poverty, Social Sec/Medicare, States One comment

Recently, Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, wrote about the “practical effects of the Affordable Care Act. His remarks clarified for me that

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Dear Governor Nixon: Extend Medicaid coverage in Missouri

November 29, 2012 Stacy Mergenthal Employment, Government, Health care, Human Rights 2 comments

Dear Governor Nixon: During the debate over the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we learned many things as a country. Chief among them, in my

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