Republican supermajorities have all but scuttled Medicaid expansion in Missouri, defeating at least for this year efforts supported by the Democratic governor to extend basic health coverage to an estimated 250,000 low-income state residents.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said she underestimated how long the politics of health reform would last and didnt anticipate how much confusion the slow rollout of the legislation would create.
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