By Frank Morris
Kansas City, MO – Some 24-thousand low income Missouri parents who had Medicaid insurance coverage yesterday, woke up this morning uninsured, as a new round of Medicaid cuts took effect. The cuts will throw more of the burden for treating indigent patients onto public hospitals. Some activists in Kansas City want to make sure those institutions shoulder that load and have launched a push to codify the responsibility its members say hospitals have to treat the poor.