Protect Medicaid

Working families in Kansas need more help right now, not less. Everything is more expensive these days, and health care costs are skyrocketing, even for those with good health insurance.

But right now Congress is trying to make the biggest cut in history to Medicaid, which would cause thousands of Kansans to lose health care and harm hospitals and communities in Kansas — especially in rural areas.

2024 Community Legislative meetings

Upcoming legislative meetings with Kansas lawmakers are a great opportunity to ask about Medicaid expansion and make your advocacy known. Here is a list of upcoming legislative meetings:

Job Announcement: Community Organizer, Storybank Specialist

The Alliance for a Healthy Kansas is hiring a Community Organizer and a Storybank Specialist.

Georgia launches Medicaid Expansion in closely watched test of work requirements

Georgia is offering a new bargain to some adults without health insurance beginning Saturday: Go to work or school and the state will cover you. But advocates decry the plan, which will insure far fewer people than a full expansion of the state-federal Medicaid program, as needlessly restrictive and expensive.

The program is likely to be closely watched as Republicans in Congress push to let states require work from some current Medicaid enrollees. Georgia would be the only state that requires Medicaid recipients to meet a work requirement.

St Joseph News-Press Now: Kansas residents await Medicaid expansion

By: Quinn Ritzdorf, News-Press NOW | November 20, 2022 Hundreds of thousands of Kansas residents are without affordable health insurance, stuck between qualifications for Medicare and Medicaid. Tammi Johnson Arellano is one of those residents in limbo. She was recently diagnosed with cataracts and the doctor told her she is halfway to being blind. “I […]