Missouri requires an additional $67 million to enforce work requirement verification in Medicaid, primarily for IT upgrades. Historical data from other states suggest significant administrative costs and challenges. Compliance will burden low-income workers, demanding extensive record-keeping. Processing demands could overwhelm state employees, leading to judicial involvement due to potential coverage losses.
Our used car selling Governor Mickey signed good old 1041, dropping the excise tax on American brewed beer by 67%, down to about 2¢ a gallon.
Housing subsidies for developers to build affordable housing? On paper many of these mixed-use places are affordable housing thanks to fuzzy math. Subsidies for really affordable housing? That’s communism here and now.
As many of you know, my 90-year-old mom receives hospice services in her memory care facility. I handle her mail. This week’s load included a formal, oversized envelope from her Pharmacy Benefit Manager… ‘You are wasting your money. You are making Read More …
Coming home after a dinner with friends last night I saw a young man on the side of the interstate trying, hard, to get into a small white car. That sucks, I thought, the guy got himself locked out of Read More …
Missouri Issues April 2025 DSS Benefit Report The short version: SNAP (food stamps) and Temporary Assistance are almost exactly where they were a year ago. The number of citizens covered by Medicaid is down thanks to bureaucratic ineptitude. A few Read More …