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Centene CEO: Missouri an 'embarrassment' over Medicaid failure

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Centene Corp. CEO Michael Neidorff called Missouri an “embarrassment" over the state government's failure to fund voter-approved Medicaid expansion.

“As the largest provider of Medicaid in the United States and a Fortune 42 company I have to ask myself, ‘Why am I in this state?’” Neidorff told Health Payer Specialist, a health industry trade publication. “This is a state that frowns on this business — what am I doing here?”

It's not the first time Neidorff has threatened to move Centene out of Missouri. Last year, he cited crime in the St. Louis area and ongoing reluctance to expand Medicaid for considering a move to North Carolina.

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