Hundreds of thousands could lose Medicaid and SNAP benefits in Missouri, Kansas

As Crystal Lyon was preparing to give birth last spring, she took steps to ensure her daughter was enrolled in Medicaid as soon as she was born.

Her daughter’s father had been born with retinoblastoma, a rare form of eye cancer. That type of cancer is caused by a genetic mutation, and soon after their daughter Ari was born they started to suspect she may also have the mutation.