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Judi Lynn

(160,586 posts)
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 08:07 AM Aug 2020

Missouri approves Medicaid expansion; Parson, Galloway win

Source: Associated Press

Summer Ballentine, Associated Press
Updated 6:35 am CDT, Wednesday, August 5, 2020

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Voters on Tuesday made Missouri the 38th state to approve expanding Medicaid health care coverage to thousands more low-income adults.

Support for the constitutional amendment means that as many as 250,000 more adults could choose to be covered by government health insurance beginning in July 2021, according to estimates from the state auditor.

“As Medicaid expansion is fully and expeditiously implemented so that Missourians are no longer forced to choose between putting food on the table and seeing a doctor, today’s victory will be a true turning point in the history of the Show Me State,” said A.J. Bockelman, the pro-Medicaid campaign manager.

The vote on health care, which was paired with Missouri’s primary elections, came as confirmed coronavirus case s have been rising in the state and the economy continues to suffer.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Missouri-voters-to-decide-on-health-care-for-more-15456269.php

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Missouri approves Medicaid expansion; Parson, Galloway win (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2020 OP
It was an interesting election Sherman A1 Aug 2020 #1
Sorry to see the cool name, "Lacy Clay" disappear! He & his dad, Lacy Clay, were easy to remember. Judi Lynn Aug 2020 #2
That's amazing. Very good omen. lagomorph777 Aug 2020 #3
MO state Rebl2 Aug 2020 #4
Correct Sherman A1 Aug 2020 #5
Since this was a constitutional amendment,.... lastlib Aug 2020 #6
That's what I was going to say The Genealogist Aug 2020 #10
And yet so many will also vote for Trump obamanut2012 Aug 2020 #7
repukes will do what they did in other states, demand work requirements to force most off it. nt yaesu Aug 2020 #8
I'm extremely disappointed that Elad Gross did not xmas74 Aug 2020 #9

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
1. It was an interesting election
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 08:18 AM
Aug 2020

A mixed bag of results for me. Congressman Lacy Clay (who I always considered to be progressive) lost to the challenge from the left, Dr. Sam Page won for St. Louis County Executive (having an MD at the helm during a pandemic is probably a good thing), my State Senate and State House seats went to a local political family who I do not favor, my County Council seat removed one of the aforementioned political family members (who I couldn’t stand) and the attempt by Florissant to impose a Use tax for online sales was defeated.

The wheels of government grind on with a few new characters.

Judi Lynn

(160,586 posts)
2. Sorry to see the cool name, "Lacy Clay" disappear! He & his dad, Lacy Clay, were easy to remember.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 08:51 AM
Aug 2020

So unusual to be able to rearrange your last name to get your first name!

Thanks for the information on the online sales tax loss. Missourians can live with that!

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
3. That's amazing. Very good omen.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:01 AM
Aug 2020

If health care can bring about a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT in a ruby-red state, it shows we are on track to a massive blue tsunami in November.

Rebl2

(13,535 posts)
4. MO state
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:48 AM
Aug 2020

house has a history of overturning votes by the people, saying we didn’t understand what we were voting for. In other words calling us stupid to our face. Happened last year or maybe it was 2018. Happened years ago when we voted to shut down puppy mills, yet they got it overturned. I am so sick of this.

lastlib

(23,257 posts)
6. Since this was a constitutional amendment,....
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 10:31 AM
Aug 2020

it'll be nearly impossible for the Lege to override it. Best they can probly do is wiggle around it and maybe cut the ground out from under it somehow, but they will certainly attempt it. After the way they did the conceal-carry after we voted on Prop B in 1999, and the puppy-mill debacle, I have zero faith in their willingness to abide by the will of the people.

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
10. That's what I was going to say
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 10:36 PM
Aug 2020

The state legislature will just overturn it. It is what they do. And the usual suspects will likely win reelection again, because piss off the libs or something. Lather, rinse, repeat. Welcome to the Show-Me state.

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