Drop in Missouri kids on Medicaid faces continued scrutiny

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri officials say parents who no longer qualify
for government health care but do not then sign up their children separately are
partly to blame for the drop in children’s Medicaid coverage. Roughly 100,000
children lost coverage through the program between January 2018 and December
2019. Rep. David Wood says families dropped off the program after renewed
efforts to check eligibility in 2018. He says some didn’t reapply for their
children to be covered separately, even if their kids likely would have
qualified.Democrats have been complaining about the drop in coverage for months.

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