Kansas state officials have abruptly canceled a series of public meetings on recent cuts made to KanCare, the state’s privatized Medicaid program. As Heartland Health Monitor’s Jim McLean reports, the meetings were to have taken place in Overland Park, Topeka, Wichita, Pittsburg and Dodge City.
Jim McLean is a reporter for the KHI News Service and a contributor to Heartland Health Monitor, a reporting collaboration focused on health issues and their impact in Kansas and Missouri. The partners — KCUR Public Radio, KCPT Public Television, KHI News Service and Kansas Public Radio — strive to bring listeners and readers timely, accurate and comprehensive coverage of a topic that leaves no one untouched.