The House Government Oversight and Accountability Committee voted 5-2 against the expansion, after hearing testimony from healthcare and business advocacy groups favoring the expansion who claimed it would add jobs to the state economy and aid rural hospitals as they lose other federal funding.
Gov. Nixon had included the expansion in his budget proposal, which would have added $907.5 million dollars in federal spending to account for 260,000 more Medicaid beneficiaries. The state budget office placed the estimated revenue gain at $300 million over three years with the optional expansion, according to the report.
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