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KanCare Skeptics Air Concerns at Topeka Meeting

By Bryan Thompson
Published June 22, 2012 at 12:03 AM CDT

 

 

Another overflow crowd showed up in Topeka for the second of two public hearings on Governor Sam Brownback’s Medicaid overhaul plan known as KanCare.  LIke those gathered at the first meeting in Wichita, the crowd gathered in Topeka was largely opposed to the sweeping changes being proposed.  We get more from Jim McLean, of the KHI News Service.

For more information on this story, just visit our health coverage partners at KHI News online.

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Bryan Thompson
Bryan Thompson has been KPR's Health Reporter since 2000. He's a lifelong Kansan, and a graduate of Wichita State University. He's been involved in radio news longer than he'd care to admit, serving as news director at stations in El Dorado, Liberal, and Salina before joining KPR. He and his wife, Cindy, are the parents of six outstanding children--one of whom now looks down on them from above. In his spare time, Bryan enjoys music and sports.
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