Tag: Medicaid Expansion
Counties approved legislative priorities for 2025
The Kansas Association of Counties (KAC) set its legislative priorities for next year at a recent conference in Wichita. Among…
Research shows states not expanding Medicaid spend much less per enrollee
New York’s Empire Center analyzed data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and found that the ten states that have…
Study: Medicaid expansion puts hospitals at higher risk of closure
It has become a mantra with Kansas Democrat Governor Laura Kelly: any hospital closure is blamed on not expanding Medicaid. …
House, Senate leaders look ahead to 2024 Kansas legislative session
Will Kansans see a flat tax, property tax reform, and school choice in 2024? How about Medicaid expansion? What to…
Kansas legislative leaders reject governor’s renewed call for Medicaid expansion
Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson and House Speaker Dan Hawkins indicate Governor Laura Kelly’s latest effort to secure Medicaid expansion…
Herington Hospital closure is unrelated to Medicaid expansion
Kansas Democrat Governor Laura Kelly is once again using the closure of a rural hospital to push for Medicaid expansion…
Kansas Health Institute uses flawed assumptions to push Medicaid expansion
A new white paper from the Kansas Health Institute suggests that new federal incentives would lower the cost of Medicaid…
Higher, fourth tax bracket proposed by governor‘s Tax Council
Single tax filers in Kansas earning over $50,000 and couples with incomes over $100,000 would be subjected to a new,…
Biden, Pelosi bill would cut Kansas DSH hospital payments
Fox News reports that the Build Back Better bill passed by the House includes a provision that would cut Disproportionate…
Feds hope to back door Medicaid expansion in Kansas
A bill that would be a back-door way to expand Medicaid in Kansas and eleven other states that have so…
Legislators signal they’ll reject Kelly’s tax-and-spend budget proposal
Gov. Laura Kelly’s FY 2022 budget proposal appears to be dead on arrival at the Kansas Legislature. Her record-setting $8…
Senator Sykes misleads on Kansas Medicaid expansion
Senator Dinah Sykes (D-Lenexa) took time out during last week’s legislative session to send a very misleading fundraising email about…
Medicaid expansion states have worse COVID-19 results
One of Governor Kelly’s closest allies in the Legislature, state Sen. Barbara Bollier, a retired Mission Hills physician, said one…
Kansas GOP leaders react to Medicaid expansion agreement
Over the weekend more Kansas politicians and stakeholders chimed in on the Medicaid expansion agreement announced last week in Topeka…
Kelly-Denning Medicaid expansion plan defies voters
Governor Laura Kelly and Kansas Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning held a press conference in the Capitol rotunda to announce…
Fort Scott discovers it doesn’t need a hospital
“This should not have happened,” Gov. Laura Kelly said in October 2018 after Fort Scott’s Mercy Hospital closed. “Simply put: if…
New poll shows 75 percent of Republican voters reject Medicaid expansion
A new poll reveals more than three-quarters of Republicans oppose using taxpayer money to provide Medicaid to able-bodied, working adults.…
Medicaid expansion plan would hike cigarette taxes, raise fees
Over the last two days, members of the Senate Select Committee on Healthcare Access noodled on details of a Medicaid…
Nurse practitioner reform: better healthcare access, lower cost
March 20 was the worst day of the 2019 legislative session, according to Kansas House Majority Leader Dan Hawkins. That’s…
Medicaid expansion in KS could hinder federal efforts to improve health care
Passing Medicaid expansion in Kansas could hinder efforts at the federal level to create a more personalized, cost-effective health care…
Senate Medicaid Expansion Committee meeting dates set
A special select committee of Kansas Senators is set to meet on Oct. 22 and Oct. 23 to map out…
Senator Denning, House moderates disagree over Medicaid interim committee
The makeup of a Medicaid interim committee that will be tasked with writing expansion legislation is causing a rift between…
Advocates admit Medicaid expansion won’t save rural hospitals
Pressed to consider the facts with emotion removed, even some strong advocates admit Medicaid expansion won’t save rural hospitals. And…
Kansas budget to jump 9 percent next year
Legislators just increased the Kansas budget by almost 9 percent next year but you wouldn’t know it from reading mainstream…