Senate Majority Leader Ron Richard (R.-Joplin) has said if Medicaid expands, he would like to see tort reform along with it, but currently there isn’t much support for the expansion in the state Senate. Representatives in the State House are working on proposals for Medicaid reform and consider tort reform a separate challenge.
Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed three pieces of tort reform in September, but the legislature over turned them.
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