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Nixon administration: Missouri could gain from Medicaid

Although the federal government would spend billions of dollars, an expansion of Missouri's Medicaid program could actually generate millions of dollars of new revenues and savings for the state's budget, according to an analysis by Gov. Jay Nixon's administration.

By DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press | Updated on December 26, 2012

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Although the federal government would spend billions of dollars, an expansion of Missouri’s Medicaid program could actually generate millions of dollars of new revenues and savings for the state’s budget, according to an analysis by Gov. Jay Nixon’s administration.

The Democratic governor plans to use the figures to bolster his argument to skeptical Republican legislators that the state should embrace a key part of President Barack Obama’s health care law and expend Medicaid eligibility to hundreds of thousands of lower-income adults.

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