Medicaid expansion on Tuesday's Missouri ballot.
The Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce came out in favor of Missouri's Medicaid expansion ballot measure on Thursday.
The Amendment 2 measure, which supporters say could extend health care coverage to more than 230,000 low- and very low-income Missourians, is up for a vote on Tuesday, Aug. 4. Medicaid expansion would add government-backed health coverage for those earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty line — $17,600 per year for an individual or about $36,150 for a family of four.
Missouri is one of 13 states to opt out of Medicaid expansion, a requirement of the 2010 Obamacare law later made into a state-by-state option by a Supreme Court ruling. A decade after the law's adoption, 9 percent of Missourians are without health insurance, according to the Kaiser Familiy Foundation.
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