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Republican State Senator Jeff King used to be opposed to expanding Medicaid to provide healthcare for poor Kansans. But now that his hometown hospital is closing, in part because the state has failed to expand Medicaid, he's changing his position on the subject.
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Kathleen Sebelius, the former Kansas governor and former secretary of Health and Human Services, says there's no turning back on Obamacare. And, she says GOP presidential candidates who say otherwise are misleading voters.
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Insurance companies planning to sell policies in the Kansas Obamacare marketplace were asking for big rate increases, but Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer says many of the proposed increases were too high. So, he scaled them back.
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The number of residents in Kansas and Missouri without health insurance has decreased.
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The Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, has survived another major legal challenge. The nation's highest court has preserved federal subsidies in the federal health law, which allow low-income Americans to purchase health insurance coverage.
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Thousands of Kansans and Missourians who rely on federal subsidies to purchase health insurance are breathing a sigh of relief today. That's because the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a provision in the Affordable Care Act that provides subsidies to some low-income Americans.
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The United States Supreme Court has uphelp provisions in the federal health law that provided subsidies for low-income people to buy health insurance. Essentially, the nation's highest court upheld the Affordable Care Act, which is popularly known as Obamacare.
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Leaders of health committees in the Kansas Legislature, along with 70 state GOP lawmakers, are urging leaders in Congress to re-examine the federal health law known as Obamacare. Many Kansas legislators want the law, officially known as the Affordable Care Act, repealed.
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Here's a summary of the day's Kansas news headlines from the Associated Press, as compiled by the KPR news staff.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates 1.3 million Kansans are covered by health insurance policies that include preventive services at no cost to the patient.