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Federally-certified navigators will be available again this year to help Kansans understand their options in the federal health insurance marketplace.
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Health care system head says the state’s “failure” to expand Medicaid eligibility to more low-income adults has cost Via Christi $28 million over the past two years.
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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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More than 11,000 Kansans signed up for coverage using "special enrollment periods."
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The number of residents in Kansas and Missouri without health insurance has decreased.
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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.
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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.