WIBW-13: WATCH: Cancer survivors, family members encourage lawmakers to expand KanCare

Dozens of cancer survivors, caregivers and their families from across the state gathered in Topeka Tuesday to encourage expanding Medicaid. They took part in the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network’s Annual Day at the Capitol. The group met up at the Historic Topeka Fire Station on Southwest Van Buren then headed to the Statehouse […]

Topeka Capital Journal: Cancer survivors support raising tobacco use age limit to 21, expanding access to Kansas Medicaid

By Tim Carpenter | February 5, 2019 Stephanie Barr spoke from the heart about health reform Tuesday as a cancer survivor who was around cigarette smoke in her youth. Barr was 30 years old and without insurance when her breast cancer was diagnosed, but she qualified for care under a provision of Medicaid applicable to women […]

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 […]

Governor’s Task Force Votes to Recommend KanCare Expansion

Governor’s Task Force Votes to Recommend KanCare Expansion Move would allow thousands of Kansans with substance use disorders, mental health issues access to health care TOPEKA – At its final meeting before submitting a report to the governor, the Governor’s Task Force to Address Substance Use Disorders voted to include expansion of KanCare, the state’s […]

How to submit your comment to the Substance Use Task Force.

Substance use disorder, including opioid addiction, is a growing problem in Kansas. More than one-third of the 150,000 Kansans in the coverage gap have suffered from substance use disorder and/or mental health issues in the past year. That’s why the discussion happening at the Governor’s Task Force to Address Substance Use Disorders is so timely […]

In Kansas, let’s stop work requirements and expand KanCare

It is hard to imagine a federal court decision in Kentucky could have ripple effects in Kansas, but that is what happened this past week when it comes to Medicaid. A federal judge recently blocked the state of Kentucky from requiring work as a condition of Medicaid eligibility, ruling that imposing such a requirement […]

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 […]