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 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 […]