Missouri: Nixon criticizes blunt on Medicaid cuts, MOHELA policy

Associated Press

ST. LOUIS — Using the state Democratic Party’s annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner as his platform, Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon harshly criticized Gov. Matt Blunt’s decisions to cut Medicaid spending and sell off some college loan assets.

Nixon, who plans to challenge the Republican Blunt next year, said Friday that Blunt was ignoring the problems his decisions were causing for hundreds of Missouri families and prospective college students.

He told the audience of almost 1,000 that he wouldn’t go the typical event’s route of merely poking fun at the GOP, instead saying he wanted “an adult conversation” about what he considered as Blunt’s mistakes “while other states are moving forward.”

He said Blunt and the Republican-controlled Legislature aren’t telling Missourians the full truth when they say the state can’t afford to reinstate health care coverage to the estimated 455,000 people left without insurance after the latest changes in Medicaid — including low-income, elderly and disabled people, as well as 55,000 children.

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