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 […]

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 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   “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 […]

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 […]

Statement of David Jordan, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, on the United State Senate’s vote on the motion to proceed to a debate about taking health care away from millions of Americans   “It is disappointing that Senator Moran joined Senator Roberts and voted to open a debate on health care […]