Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly announced Thursday her seventh attempt to expand Medicaid, which has continuously faced staunch opposition from Republican leadership.

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Missouri’s Medicaid program, MO HealthNet, is now requiring DME oxygen providers to supply firesafe cannula valves to program participants, according to news reports.

Recent proposals from Republican congressional leaders and conservative think tanks would cut Medicaid by taking coverage away from people who don’t meet unnecessary and burdensome work requirements. ...

Indiana no longer is encouraging eligible Hoosiers to enroll in state-subsidized health care programs as part of an effort to reduce how much it spends on Medicaid. Mitch Roob, secretary of the ...

A lack of available beds has caused a bottleneck of people who were arrested, found incompetent to stand trial, and ordered into mental health treatment designed to allow them to have their day in ...

Keeping Missouri state government operating through June 30 will cost $2.1 billion more than lawmakers budgeted last year ...

Missourians voted for both President Donald Trump and to restore abortion access in November's election. In his first term, ...

The Missouri governor said that to expand school choice, legislators should also approve open-enrollment legislation that would allow students to transfer to schools in districts where they don’t ...

A boost Gov. Mike Kehoe touts as the largest increase in public school funding in two decades will fall about $300 million ...

A two-page memo, totaling less than a thousand words and packed with right-wing rhetoric, threw the fate of the US economy into uncertain territory late Monday as the Trump administration ordered the ...