State seeks two month delay in implementing Missouri Medicaid expansion

State attorneys Friday requested a delay of at least two months in implementing the Medicaid expansion that voters approved last August and lawmakers declined to fund until ordered to do so last month by the Missouri Supreme Court.

“We understand that the Missouri Supreme Court’s decision is the law and, in fact, the department is working already to implement it as quickly as it possibly can,” Missouri Solicitor General John Sauer told Cole County Circuit Court Judge Jon Beetem.