UPDATE: House GOP committees defeat Medicaid expansion

Monday, February 25, 2013 | 4:09 p.m. CST; updated 8:02 p.m. CST, Monday, February 25, 2013

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri House Republicans gave a resounding "no" Monday to Democratic plans to expand Medicaid coverage in a strategic preview to the unveiling of an alternative plan touted to transform the state's health care program for the poor into "the most free-market-based Medicaid system in the entire country."

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