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Medicaid Cuts Protested as 'Broken Promise'

By Maria Carter

Kansas City, MO – Medicaid eligibility requirements were tightened this year by the Governor and Republican lawmakers, eliminating health-care services for 90,000 people. Opponents of the cut accuse Gov. Blunt on reneging his campaign pledge to preserve Medicaid eligibility requirments.

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