Plan Targets Health-Care Cuts ; Proposal to Access More Federal Funds.

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House Democrats are touting a plan to reverse the 2005 Medicaid cuts and to establish an 11-member umbrella organization to examine the issue of health-care access throughout Missouri.

Republicans in the General Assembly in 2005 altered income levels for the state's Medicaid program, reducing eligibility from 100 percent of the federal poverty level to 85 percent. Gov. Matt Blunt signed the cuts into law, arguing that they were necessary to save money in times of tight budgets.

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Plan Targets Health-Care Cuts ; Proposal to Access More Federal Funds.

Currently, a family of three at 85 percent of the poverty level would earn $14,595. The same family at 100 percent of the poverty level would make $17,170 a year.

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