2020 Missouri Amendment 2, also called the Medicaid Expansion Initiative, was a ballot measure to amend the Constitution of Missouri to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The initiative was on the August 4, 2020, primary ballot and passed with 53.27% of the vote. Following Medicaid expansion initiatives in other states, Republican lawmakers in Nebraska and Utah added work requirements to their states' expansions; supporters aimed to prevent this by proposing state constitutional amendments for future Medicaid expansion initiatives. The measure was supported most in urban areas and opposed in rural areas. After a delay due to a lack of funding from the Missouri General Assembly and resulting litigation, the initiative was slowly implemented in October 2021. Republican lawmakers attempted to roll back the program and add a work requirement through a state constitutional amendment, which failed after the United States Supreme Court prevented its implementation.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Missouri_Amendment_2

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1862:

In Brooklyn, a mob composed largely of Irish Americans attacked a group of African Americans in a riot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1862_Brooklyn_riot

1991:

An explosion on the Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos ruptured its hull, causing it to sink off the east coast of South Africa, with all 571 people on board rescued. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTS_Oceanos

2006:

Sri Lankan civil war: Seventeen employees of the French nongovernmental organization ACF International were massacred in Mutur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Trincomalee_massacre_of_NGO_workers

2020:

A large explosion of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in Lebanon killed 218 people and caused US$15 billion in damage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

discordant: 1. Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible. 2. Of people: disagreeing with each other; dissenting, quarrelsome. 3. (also figurative) Of sounds: harsh, jarring; specifically (music), of musical notes or tunes: not in harmony; dissonant, inharmonious. 4. (geology, physical geography, originally US) Of a rock formation or other land feature, or its alignment: cutting across or transverse to neighbouring features. 5. Of a coastline: having bands of different types of rock running transversely to the coast, leading to the formation of alternating bays and headlands. 6. (chiefly genetics) Of two similar subjects, especially twins: differing in some characteristic. 7. (healthcare) Ellipsis of serodiscordant (“of a couple: with one partner HIV positive and the other HIV negative”). 8. (mathematics, statistics) Of figures, etc.: having opposite signs (for example, positive and negative). 9. (chiefly in the plural) A thing which is not in accord or harmony with one or more other things. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/discordant

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.   --Barack Obama https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barack_Obama