Breaking News, the State of Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the state must expand Medicaid to low-income residents. The Missouri Supreme Court agreed that the people’s ballot initiative that voters approved last year was constitutional. Thousands of low-income Missourians will gain medical coverage under Medicaid expansion.

People in the other 12 states have yet to expand Medicaid, all with Republican governors or GOP-controlled legislatures must pass ballot measures to demand that they receive medical coverage under Medicaid expansion. Medicaid expansion saves lives every day.

The richest country in the world can and must do better by its’ low-income residents.