Missouri House rejects healthcare expansion

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Kansas City Star, May 8, 2009

The Missouri House rejected a spending bill that would have added nearly 35,000 parents to the state's Medicaid system. But after that defeat, a committee of House and Senate lawmakers worked out a deal to keep the funds financing the expansion in the budget for a new, as-yet-unwritten plan.

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