[Nfbmo] FW: Medicaid expansion opponents say Obama killed possibilities for 2013

[McMahon, Cory J]

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Cory MccMahon

 

From: Federation of Missouri Advocates
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Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 10:17 AM
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MissouriNet

Medicaid expansion opponents say Obama killed possibilities for 2013

April 15, 2013 By Bob Priddy
Missouri legislative opponents of Medicaid expansion  say President Obama
has killed any hopes that it might happen here this year.  Senate leader Tom
Dempsey of St. Charles has not budged from the position he announce last
November that Medicaid expansion is not going to happen in Missouri.
Governor Nixon has spent weeks trying to build grassroots support for it.
But the president's proposal last week to delay Medicaid cuts to hospitals
by one year is the last nail in the coffin as far as Dempsey is concerned.
"There wasn't any hope in the first place," he says.
For northwest Missouri senator Brad Lager, the announcement  also is an
admission by the President that  the program is far more expensive than
originally promoted. He says the year's delay will be important in
developing a solid Medicaid reform package.

 

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