Statement from April Holman, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, on Governor Kelly’s State of the State

Since 2014, Kansans have demanded the Kansas Legislature and our Governor expand access to affordable health care and bring our tax dollars back home by expanding KanCare, the Kansas Medicaid program. With a supportive governor and a new Legislative session underway, we can make that happen. In Governor Kelly’s speech tonight, she spoke on her […]

Statement from the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas In Response to the Closing of Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott

It is with sadness and alarm that we heard about another hospital closing in rural Kansas yesterday. This marks the second Kansas hospital to close its doors in recent years. Almost three years ago to the day (October 10, 2015), Independence lost its century-old Mercy Hospital, leaving the community scrambling to fill the void that […]

Kansas Policy Expert and Advocate April Holman Selected to Lead Alliance for a Healthy Kansas

The Alliance for a Healthy Kansas has announced April Holman as the new executive director to lead the statewide health advocacy organization. Holman, an attorney and experienced health policy leader, will join the Alliance on August 16. “More than 100 partners have joined forces in the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas to increase access to […]

Statement from the Alliance on CMS’s rejection of lifetime limits on KanCare

Statement from the Alliance for Healthy Kansas on the CMS decision to reject lifetime limits on KanCare: The Alliance for a Healthy Kansas fully supports the decision announced today by Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), to reject the Colyer administration’s request to impose lifetime limits on eligibility for […]

Statement of David Jordan, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, on the Brownback/Colyer Administration’s KanCare 2.0 announcement:

The Brownback-Colyer Administration’s statement that it will “stop” KanCare 2.0 clarifies little about the path forward or how the existing KanCare program will be repaired. One of the defining elements of KanCare 2.0, a requirement that some enrollees work in order to receive health coverage, apparently remains. This requirement would create costly and burdensome administrative […]

Statement on Governor Brownback’s State of the State Speech

Statement of David Jordan, Executive Director of the Alliance for Healthy Kansas, on Governor Brownback’s State of the State Speech “Over 75% of Kansans and an overwhelming majority of legislators from both parties have a dream to expand KanCare and bring our tax dollars back to Kansas to benefit our state. Yet, in his state-of-the […]

Statement of David Jordan, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, on passage of the GOP tax plan

Statement of David Jordan, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, on passage of the GOP tax plan “This afternoon, the U.S. Congress completed its rush to pass tax legislation. Written in secret without proper scrutiny and with few legislators reading it, the hastily considered bill will result in $1.5 trillion in […]

A Statement from Coalition Members on CHIP

Dear Senator Moran, Senator Roberts, Representative Estes, Representative Jenkins, Representative Marshall and Representative Yoder: We are writing to urge you to work swiftly to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Without action, CHIP is set to expire on September 30, 2017. Allowing CHIP to expire would put the health coverage of 8.9 million children […]