by Mike Lear | Nov 20, 2013 | Health / Medicine, News
A House Medicaid Committee will meet again once a draft of its report for the legislature is ready. Unlike most committees, Chairman Jay Barnes (R-Jefferson City) says the report the House Interim Committee on Medicaid Transformation will issue won’t have...
by Mike Lear | Nov 19, 2013 | Health / Medicine, News
A meeting that had been planned for next week between Governor Jay Nixon and the members of the House and Senate interim committees on Medicaid reform has been canceled after disagreement arose on where and how it would be conducted. Governor Nixon issued an...
by Mike Lear | Nov 19, 2013 | Health / Medicine, News
The Chairman of House and Senate interim committees dealing with Medicaid reform say they will take Governor Jay Nixon up on his invitation to meet with them next week, but they want to do it on their own terms. Representative Jay Barnes (R-Jefferson City), before a...
by Mike Lear | Nov 18, 2013 | News
Governor Jay Nixon says he thinks it is important he sit down with the House and Senate interim committees on Medicaid before the filing of legislation begins in two weeks. Nixon extended the invitation to the members of those committees to hold a joint session with...
by Mike Lear | Nov 14, 2013 | News, Politics / Govt
Governor Jay Nixon says he is directing the Missouri Department of Revenue to accept tax returns filed jointly by same-sex couples who are legally married in other states but have income in Missouri. Nixon said he would take the action with an executive order by the...
