Governor Sam Brownback says he’s sending a federal grant of 31-and-a-half million dollars back to Washington. As KPR's Bryan Thompson reports, the so-called Early Innovator grant was awarded in February by the U-S Department of Health and Human Services to pay for the information technology needed to set up a health insurance exchange.
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.