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July 23, 2019Columbia, MO |  By: AP

Legislative investigation called in regards to Missouri Medicaid recipient numbers dropping

Close to 90,000 children and 23,000 adults have been
dropped from Missouri's Medicaid health insurance program in the past year.

House Democratic Minority Leader Crystal Quade in response is calling for a
legislative investigation.

Quade on Sunday publicly released a letter she wrote to Republican House
Speaker Elijah Haahr. In the letter, she asked him to task a committee of
lawmakers with investigating the cause of the decline.

Haahr didn't immediately comment Monday.

Quade says the drop doesn't appear to be caused by an improving economy. She
says if that were the case, Missouri would have also seen a similar drop in the
number of people receiving food stamps.

An Associated Press request for comment to the Department of Social Services,
which oversees Medicaid, was not immediately returned Monday.