 COLUMBIA, Mo. AP - Missouri voters on Tuesday will decide whether to expand Medicaid health care coverage to thousands more low-income adults after years of resistance from Republican lawmakers. The vote on health care, as well as primaries for statewide offices and congressional seats, comes as coronavirus cases are increasing in the state, which could impact voter turnout. Missouris Republican-led Legislature repeatedly rejected Medicaid expansion proposals over the past decade, which prompted supporters to turn to the initiative process. Idaho, Maine, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Utah have all expanded Medicaid through ballot questions following inaction by state lawmakers, according to the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. Oklahoma became the 37th state to expand eligibility for Medicaid under the federal law last month. Missouris Medicaid program currently does not cover most adults without children, and its income eligibility threshold for parents is one of the lowest in the nation at about one-fifth of the poverty level. The ballot proposal would expand eligibility under the terms of the 2010 federal health care law signed by President Barack Obama. That law provides a higher-than-usual federal funding share for states that expand Medicaid coverage to adults earning up to 138 of the federal poverty level, about 17,600 for an individual or 30,000 for a family of three. Democratic Auditor Nicole Galloways office estimated that expanding Medicaid could cost the state at least 200 million or save as much as 1 billion annually by 2026. Republican opponents cite the potential costs as reason to oppose the ballot initiative. Amendment 2 will be a knockout blow to the state budget as more services will be cut or eliminated to pay for the healthcare of... 