-
The Wichita Chamber of Commerce has endorsed the idea of expanding Medicaid in Kansas, but its support for the health insurance program for poor people is conditional.
-
Three lawmakers have been removed from the House Health and Human Services committee.
-
Here's a summary of the day's Kansas news headlines from the Associated Press as compiled by the KPR news staff.
-
The report notes a slight drop in child poverty in Kansas but fewer poor children are considered eligible for Medicaid.
-
The pending closure of a southeast Kansas hospital is partially blamed on the state's failure to expand Medicaid. But that hasn't softened the governor's stance on Medicaid expansion.
-
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.
-
Community health centers are serving an ever-growing share of the population--especially those who don't have health insurance.
-
Here's a summary of the day's Kansas news headlines from the Associated Press.
-
Rural health professionals are spreading the word that mental health care can be just as important...if not more important...as health care for the body.
-
Those who advocate for people with disabilities say the state's new privatized Medicaid system is not working. State officials ackowledge problems but maintain the KanCare system as a whole is working well.