Take care of our Missouri neighbors by expanding Medicaid : Stltoday

Take care of our Missouri neighbors by expanding Medicaid : Stltoday

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We Missourians would instantly care for a neighbor we found hurt and bleeding. We’d take the shirt off our backs for a tourniquet and then rush him to medical care. But what if we never saw him writhing on the ground? The fact that he may be out of sight and out of mind does not absolve our responsibility to make sure he gets care.

It may be easy to resist Medicaid expansion for patients whose sickness prevails beyond our vision, but these patients are our neighbors. If our policymakers could witness firsthand the suffering and barriers to care endured by our waiters, cashiers, daycare workers, and shuttle drivers who work without health insurance, I know they would similarly take the shirt off their back to help.