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State Representative Jim Kelly is working with a group headed by Lieutenant Governor Jeff Colyer designed to assist health care providers in rural areas.

Some rural Kansas hospitals are in financial trouble, and Governor Sam Brownback is laying the blame squarely on President Obama and the Affordable Care Act.

The group is touting the possible financial savings that could come from an expansion, and increased private-sector support for the move.

Here's a summary of the day's Kansas news headlines from the Associated Press as compiled by the KPR news staff.

Supporters of expanding Medicaid in Kansas held a forum where they tried to convince state lawmakers to examine plans in other conservative states where the health insurance program for the poor has been expanded.

The number of residents in Kansas and Missouri without health insurance has decreased.

So many supporters of Medicaid expansion converged on the Kansas Statehouse that lawmakers had to find a larger committee room to hold a hearing on the idea.

The rate of uninsured Americans is falling everywhere, except in Kansas.