Missouri Department of Social Services

State and Local Government | ARTICLE | March 23, 2026

Cost of Delaying Safety-Net Modernization

By Elias Tsapelas | Read Time 3 min

Health Care | ARTICLE | November 12, 2025

Checking Medicaid’s Pulse

By Elias Tsapelas | Read Time 3 min

Economy | ARTICLE | May 3, 2023

Right Idea, Wrong Approach

By Elias Tsapelas | Read Time 4 min

Health Care | ARTICLE | August 3, 2020

Debunking the Myth of a Costless Medicaid Expansion

By Elias Tsapelas | Read Time 4 min

Health Care | ARTICLE | July 13, 2020

Missouri Medicaid Division Confirms Expansion Will Break Budget

By Elias Tsapelas | Read Time 3 min

Health Care | ARTICLE | January 20, 2020

Medicaid’s Value Problem

By Elias Tsapelas | Read Time 3 min

Economy | ARTICLE | March 25, 2019

Missouri Should Be Measuring Intergenerational Poverty, but How We Do It Matters

By Emily Stahly | Read Time 2 min

Health Care | ARTICLE | March 1, 2019

Surprising Change in Medicaid Enrollment

By Elias Tsapelas | Read Time 3 min

State and Local Government | ARTICLE | February 12, 2018

Map: Medicaid Spending and Enrollment by County in 2016

By Emily Stahly | Read Time 2 min