Mo. Medicaid director replaced as session nears its end
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Mo. Medicaid director replaced as session nears its end

Date: May 14, 2013
By: Wes Duplantier
State Capitol Bureau

Intro: 
Efforts to expand Missouri Medicaid program are likely done for the year, and so is the program's former director.
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Wrap: Missouri's former Medicaid director, Ian McCaslin, has been replaced with just days left in Missouri legislative session. Workers at the Department of Social Services found out about the switch in an email on Tuesday.

Republican State Representative Jay Barnes is sponsoring a bill to expand Missouri Medicaid program as part of the federal health care law. He says McCaslin never even testified in favor of his bill, even though Gov. Jay Nixon wanted the expansion.  

Barnes says such legislation will still be possible--even with McCaslin gone.

Actuality:  BARNES.WAV
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Description: "Graveyards are full of indispensible men and the world moves on."

McCaslin has been reached by phone but he isn't saying much about his departure. Nixon's staff also isn't saying anything about the move.

Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Wes Duplantier. Newsradio 1120. KMOX.

Intro: 
Efforts to expand Missouri Medicaid program are likely done for the year, and so is the program's former director.
RunTime:  0:46
OutCue:  SOC

Wrap: Missouri's former Medicaid director, Ian McCaslin, has been replaced with just before the end of the Missouri legislative session. Workers at the state Department of Social Services found out about the switch in an email on Tuesday.

Republican State Representative Jay Barnes is sponsoring a bill to expand Missouri Medicaid program. Barnes says such legislation will still be possible--even with McCaslin gone.

Actuality:  BARNES2.WAV
Run Time:  00:09
Description: "His expertise will certainly be missed. But it doesn't mean that it will be impossible to transform Missouri Medicaid."

McCaslin has been reached by phone but he's refused to say anything about why he left. He had been the head of the Medicaid program since 2007.

Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Wes Duplantier. Newsradio 1120. KMOX.