How Medicaid expansion will help the working poor access healthcare—and change Missouri politics

Autumn Stultz helped fundamentally change Missouri. That may seem like hyperbole, but the single mother from Springfield was one of three plaintiffs in a landmark legal case in which the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that a 2020 ballot item expanding Medicaid was valid — and that the state has to sign up thousands of Missourians who constitute a segment of the working poor.