Posted on 08/05/2020 3:03:40 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
Ignoring pleas from Republican leaders, Missouri voters approved a plan Tuesday to expand Medicaid coverage to more than 230,000 low-income people in the state.
Missouri voted to expand its Medicaid program, as 53% of voters supported the measure. Missouri now joins 37 other states that have already expanded the federally subsidized health insurance program.
The decision will mean adults between the ages of 19 and 65 whose income is at or below 138% of the federal poverty level will be covered. As of this year, that amounts to $17,608 for an individual and $36,156 for a household of four.
The vote comes after repeated rejections by the GOP-controlled Legislature after the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 allowed states to expand who can get coverage.
The constitutional amendment marks the latest setback for Republicans when it comes to ballot initiatives. Voters also approved a minimum wage hike and rejected a right-to-work law pushed by former Gov. Eric Greitens in 2018.
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Wait. How do State voters expand a Federal Program?
Medicaid is run by the states and Obamacare gave them the option to expand it. The ballot measure was in the form of an initiated amendment to the state constitution. It passed so the state has no choice but to do the expansion.
Wait. How do State voters expand a Federal Program
The anti ads were basically, “How are we going to pay for this?” And the pro ads were people in white coats saying, “In the midst of a pandemic, how can you deny health care to the poor?”
Early in the evening the vote was against, but for some reason conservative areas of the state report their votes first, as the evening wore on and it was getting closer, I was sure it was going to pass. People who get free stuff don’t vote against free stuff.
I guess those people like subsidizing other people’s health care and paying more taxes. Sheesh.
do not give the rats a chance to conjure up more last minute and "found" ballots that turn the election around....
they are notorious in finding just the number of ballots they need....its uncanny...
Anyone notice that the program confiscates all property of the people that die on MediCare? It happened to my aunt. After Uncle died they came in and took her $100,000 in savings. Close to me a guy died and they put a huge mortgage on wife’s property. More that the property is worth.
This is the third time in a row that the communists/socialists have used a low-turnout election to pass an amendment to the Missouri constitution. The state should have require the same margin to pass a constitutional amendment as the federal government but, no, they let the leftists pass this crap with a simple majority which is easy when Soros and his ilk drop 20 - 30 million to buy votes.
Some of the blame can be placed on the Sec State who lets these ballot issues be put on secondary elections when turnout is low. This is an unfunded mandate that will curtail a lot of important programs.
You are so right. This should have been on the November 3rd ballot when the president is winning Missouri by 20 points.
Where are CONSERVATIVE initiatives that can be passed in same way.
GO ON F-King OFFENSE already!!!!
I'm afraid you have Medicare and Medicaid confused as well as Medicaid and Expanded Medicaid.
“...Some of the blame can be placed on the Sec State who lets these ballot issues be put on secondary elections “
The unfortunate part is the amount of time required for reason to overcome the emotions of the fools who willingly work hard to underwrite the sloth of many.
“I guess those people like subsidizing other people’s health care and paying more taxes. Sheesh.”
You have millions of people in this country who don’t pay any taxes but vote. It’s what they do for a living.
I voted no, so don’t blame me.
Low turnout elections are the key to mischief. You nailed it.
We as well.
Thank you George Soros.
There’s a cap in healthcare in MO. If a family of four makes $24k a year, which is common, since one income families are still a thing here. The obamacare “marketplace” tells them they’re too poor and directs them to MO Medicaid. Mo Medicaid then tells them they make too much. IF your employer provides health insurance, it will be with $5-10k deductible OR cost you half your pay for a lower deductible.
It was not the loafers that voted for this. Most of them don’t even vote. It was the poor working class, of which there are many in MO. There’s no industry here and most jobs are $8/hr.
Blame it on John McCain for his thumbs down on the repeal or the fedgov congress that voted on obamacare without even reading it in the first case.
Was there some hanky panky voting going on in St Louis or KC? Probably so but there are a lot of poor people here that aren’t stupid, however, they know nothing of the whole marxist march through our systems. They just know that people of the same income level, in most other states, have some kind of health care. I’m talking of people who go to church every Sunday and deer hunt every year to put food in the freezer.
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