It’s now up to Judge Beetem to rule on Medicaid

A Mid-Missouri judge is weighing whether the state should be forced to expand Medicaid health insurance coverage. A trial before Cole County judge Jon Beetem over the future of the program concluded yesterday (mon). Voters last year amended the state constitution to expand access to the federal health care program. But Governor Parson says he won’t expand Medicaid because the legislature refused to pay for it. Two single mothers and another low-income woman are behind the suit.