Medicaid protesters descend on Capitol

Thursday, April 28, 2005

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Hundreds of angry advocates for the disabled descended on the state Capitol Wednesday, with a few temporarily chaining themselves to a House chamber door to protest cuts to Missouri's Medicaid health care program for the poor.

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