By: Shannon Portillo and Jade Piros de Carvalho | July 30, 2021 As local governments across Kansas work on their budgets this summer, counties and cities are struggling to keep mill levies stable amid revenue shortfalls and skyrocketing material costs. Unfortunately, state lawmakers’ refusal to expand Medicaid left federal dollars on the table that could […]

This podcast from the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas covers storyteller and advocate Carol Bush. Carol has been a nurse focused in oncology and is a longtime nurse activist. She discusses her career focused on advocating for the health of others and why Medicaid expansion is so important to those she serves. Alliance for A […]

By Sarah Kliff | June 21, 2021 Medicaid enrollment rose sharply during the pandemic, with nearly 10 million Americans joining the public health program for the poor, a government report released Monday showed. Eighty million people were covered under Medicaid, a record. It reflected an increase of nearly 14 percent over the 12-month period ending […]

By Andrew Bahl | June 22, 2021 A bill introduced in Congress last week to let cities and counties opt in to expand Medicaid is gaining attention from advocates in Kansas, who have long pushed for increase eligibility in the program statewide, a plan which has been thwarted by legislative Republicans. But others caution the […]