Kansas lawmakers have already forfeited a billion dollars in federal healthcare funding by not expanding Medicaid coverage. Guest Commentator Duane Goossen tells us that refusing to expand the program will continue to cost the state money and leave more than 100,000 Kansans without health insurance.

Here is the audio of the 2016 State-of-the-State address at the Kansas Statehouse, delivered on Tuesday, January 12, 2016. 

Kansas lawmakers are looking for ways to save money.  A committee has now recommended changes to KanCare to reduce the cost of  medicine.  But the move is controversial because it would withhold potentially life-saving drugs from some patients.

A new report claims that expanding Medicaid in Kansas would be budget neutral.  The study says Medicaid expansion could even save the state money.