Expanded Medicaid and Missouri 🏥

Accidents happen, people have healthcare needs – it’s not just the colored folks in the cities either. You can be the model homesteader or off-grider in rural Missouri and have an accident with a chain saw, get kicked by cow or trampled by a hog. Farm life is dangerous.

We want to believe that everybody who works can get affordable health care but that isn’t the case. The Medicaid expansion allows millions of people to buy into low cost, basic health insurance that would otherwise be unaffordable. The federal government picks up most of the tab, and while it’s a cost to state budgets it helps a lot of people, not just those who live in the big cities.

Maybe I have a dog in the fight. I’m not a resident of Missouri but it’s on the short list of states I’ve been interested in some day moving to in the future. Knowing that affordable health care options for those of modest incomes are available is important to me. I don’t like doctors but sometimes you need them.