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House rejects attempt to let budget conferees adopt Medicaid expansion

April 30, 2013 By Mike Lear

House Democrats have made another attempt to get federal money for Medicaid built into the state budget.

Representative Jeff Roorda (photo courtesy; Tim Bommel, Missouri House Communications)

Representative Jeff Roorda (photo courtesy; Tim Bommel, Missouri House Communications)

Representative Jeff Roorda (D-Barnhart) offered a motion that would have allowed the House-Senate budget conference committee to consider adopting Medicaid expansion.

“To allow us to take about $900 million in federal funds, provide health insurance to 300,000 Missourians and put 25,000 Missourians back to work with our own tax money … the money we sent to Washington D.C. and Washington D.C. is trying to send that back here.”

Roorda says Medicaid expansion is the greatest job-creating proposal bill he’s ever seen as a legislator.

“If you cobble together every jobs bill, every economic development bill that has been filed … not passed, but filed … in the 7 years that I’ve served up here, they don’t even come close to creating the number of jobs that we create through Medicaid expansion. 25,000 jobs … we usually consider it swinging for the fences when we try to bring in an employer that creates 500 or even 1,000 jobs.”

Representative Jay Barnes (R-Jefferson City) says it’s more of the same debate.

“This body has been down this road before … and what the gentlemen’s amendment does is it attempts to build a Medicaid mansion on a crumbling foundation. I think there’s a better solution out there … hopefully we can work on it over the summer.”

Roorda’s motion was defeated along party lines, 53-102.

The House has voted to send Barnes’ proposal that would create a joint interim committee to study Medicaid reform to the Senate.

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Filed Under: Legislature, News Tagged With: budget, Jay Barnes, Jeff Roorda, Medicaid expansion, Medicaid reform

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