Statement from the Alliance on CMS’s rejection of lifetime limits on KanCare

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 […]

Job Announcement – Executive Director

The Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, a statewide coalition of over 100 organizations focused on engaging consumers and community members on important health issues, is currently seeking an Executive Director to provide overall direction and policy strategy for the Alliance. The Alliance’s mission is to work as a collaborative and unified group of organizations to […]

Statement on Governor Brownback’s State of the State Speech

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

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 […]

Report: Senate Republican Health Bill Would Harm Kansas’ Tribal Communities

Today, a new report shows that the Senate health care plan, Better Care Reconciliation (BCRA), will harm Kansas’ tribal communities. More details are below: Senate Republican Health Bill Would Harm Kansas’ Tribal Communities [Topkea, KS] – By slashing Medicaid and making marketplace coverage unaffordable, the Senate Republican health bill would have devastating consequences for Kansas […]

How Would Repeal and Replace of the Affordable Care Act Affect Kansas?

The Commonwealth Fund has evaluated the impact “Repeal and Replace” will have on each state, and encouraged us to share their Kansas report. Download the report here.

Kansas will be devastated by the House and Senate Health Care Plans

Download this Fact Sheet The United States House of Representatives’ American Health Care Act (AHCA) and the Senate’s similar Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) will have a disproportionate negative impact on states, like Kansas, that have older, more rural populations. The damage caused by these bills will impact Kansans in a variety of ways: Reduced access […]

You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet: What’s Lurking Beyond the Horizon of the CBO Score

Shared with the permission of Community Catalyst. See the original post here. By now, you’ve already seen the key takeaways from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score of the Senate repeal bill. But what you might not know is that the CBO score hides the most devastating of the Senate bill’s effects. Indeed, the CBO […]