Missouri voters recently approved Medicaid expansion to many of the state's poorest adults, making their conservative state the second to join the Obamacare program through the ballot during the pandemic. The Missouri ballot measure expands Medicaid to about 230,000 low-income residents at a time when the state's safety net health care program is already experiencing an enrollment surge tied to the pandemic's economic upheaval.
Amendment 2, which greatly expands Medicaid eligibility in Missouri, passed recently. But the next steps are more complicated. Missouri residents who now qualify for Medicaid may not actually reap those benefits until next year, according to Missouri Hospital Association spokesperson Dave Dillon. "This is not a turn-key. Adopt it and it becomes something people can sign up for the next day," Dillon said.
Democrat Nicole Galloway said she's the best candidate for Missouri governor to enact Medicaid expansion after voters narrowly approved the measure. Voters recently made Missouri the 38th state to expand eligibility for the government health care program to thousands more low-income adults. The primary election also set the stage for a November showdown between Galloway, the state auditor and Republican Gov. Mike Parson.
One day after Missouri became the 38th state to expand Medicaid coverage for low-income residents, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly called on Republican lawmakers in her state to take similar action. "Every single Kansas voter must ask themselves why, year after year, Republican leadership in the Legislature has blocked expansion," Kelly said in a statement recently.
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Days after civil rights icon John Lewis laid in repose at the State House, an activist group led by an old friend and former student organizer stirred up trouble at the Capitol when its members attempted to spray paint their message out on the street. In bold yellow letters, it read: "Expand Medicaid."For the second time in a matter of weeks, former Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford and the Save Ourselves Movement for Justice and Democracy (SOS), had made news in Montgomery for their "destruction of public property" in protest of the state's failure to act on what they believe is now the most pressing civil rights issue facing the country.
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More than 1,100 Nebraskans applied for health coverage under the state's new Medicaid expansion program. Officials with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services announced recently that 1,135 people applied for coverage from Aug. 1 through Aug. 3. Call centers handled 1,550 phone calls about the new program over the same three-day period. Benefits under the new program, also known as Heritage Health Adult, will begin Oct. 1.
1 million. The number of Americans who have gained Medicaid coverage in states where governors or legislatures have been against the program, according to the New York Times. When the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, many Democratic-controlled states quickly opted in to the Medicaid expansion, while Republican-run states refused. In recent years, social justice nonprofits have swooped in to pass expanded Medicaid via ballot initiatives.
It was the middle of 2016, and Obamacare supporters were stuck. Nineteen states were refusing to participate in the health law's Medicaid expansion, which provides health coverage to low-income Americans. States run by Democrats eagerly signed up for the program, lured in part by generous federal funding. Most Republican governors and legislatures had little interest in expanding the reach of the Affordable Care Act and declined the money.
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The yearslong battle over transgender Iowans' right to use Medicaid funds for transition-related care hit a roadblock recently when the Iowa Court of Appeals tossed a lawsuit challenging a 2019 law that allows the state to deny that coverage. The lawsuit, brought by the ACLU of Iowa on behalf of transgender Iowans Mika Covington and Aiden Vasquez, sought to overturn a law passed in the waning days of the 2019 session that allows government entities to opt out of using public insurance dollars, including Medicaid, to pay for transition-related surgeries.
Nine nuns from Davenport and Clinton are among 56 Iowa Catholic sisters who have signed the Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice letter. The letter urges Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Congressional leaders to provide Medicaid funding and extend the $600 unemployment supplement during the COVID-19 crisis.
