The Missouri House of Representatives passed a budget last week that significantly expands Medicaid spending:

the state's Medicaid expenses would rise by more than $300 million to greater than $6.7 billion, comprising roughly 30 percent of the state's total budget.

The budget includes more Medicaid money for nursing homes, a women's health care initiative, rate increases to participating doctors and dentists and a significant expansion of a pilot program that allows children to receive medical treatment while their applications for enrollment in the government health care program are pending.

Some Democrats, however, complain it's too stingy:

"It's just not enough. There's plenty more we could do," Rep. Kiki Curls, D-Kansas City, said in a refrain echoed by Democrats throughout a budget debate that spanned parts of three days.

From Rep. Curls statement that there is "plenty more we could do," it seems the Missouri budget is funded by the legislators themselves. I think Missouri taxpayers may take issue with that kind of thinking, though.