Sifton seeks answers on 'dramatic' reduction of children on Medicaid

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — One lawmaker in Missouri is seeking an explanation for more than 55,000 children losing state health care coverage.

On Monday, Sen. Scott Sifton (D) sent a letter to Todd Richardson, the Director of the MO HealthNet Division, asking a series of questions regarding the “dramatic”‘ reduction of Missourians covered by Medicaid.

In December of 2018, 906,003 Missourians were enrolled in Medicaid, a decrease of more than 71,000 enrollees from the 977,531 Missourians enrolled the previous January.

While most other states have experienced a less than two percent decrease in the number of Medicaid participants, Missouri saw a drop of at least seven percent. According to the released data, nearly 57,000 of those who lost coverage were children.

Read more: https://themissouritimes.com/57327/sifton-seeks-answers-on-dramatic-reduction-of-children-on-medicaid/

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1. Something stinks.

Messing with children's health care/coverage is not okay under any terms I can think of. I guess if they all aged out of the system at the same time? What are the odds of that?