Statement on the CBO scoring of the Senate BCRA legislation

Statement of David Jordan, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Health Kansas on the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the Senate Better Care Improvement Act: “The Congressional Budget Office issued its analysis of the Senate health care bill, the Better Care Improvement Act (BCRA) of 2017, and as expected, it’s bad news for all […]

Those Who Know Health Care the Best Say the Senate Repeal Bill is the Worst

Response to the Senate health care repeal bill has been swift and harsh. Physicians, patient groups, hospitals, consumer groups, senior groups, faith leaders, and consumer groups have all come out against the Senate repeal bill. PROVIDERS American Academy Of Pediatrics: “The US Senate’s Health Care Legislation, At Last Unveiled Today, Fails To Meet […]

Alliance for a Healthy Kansas Statement on US House’s Passage of AHCA

Statement of David Jordan, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, on the U.S. House of Representatives vote to replace the Affordable Care Act with the American Health Care Act The U.S. House, with the support of all four representatives from Kansas, voted today to raise health care costs on older Kansans and […]

Statement on Veto of KanCare Expansion Legislation

David Jordan, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, issued the following statement in response to Governor Brownback’s veto of House Bill 2044, the Bridge to a Healthy Kansas. “Governor Brownback vetoed legislation this morning to expand KanCare. With this veto, the Governor chose to deny health coverage and care to more than […]

Key Lawmakers for a Veto Override

Governor Brownback vetoed legislation to expand KanCare. The Governor’s decision means more than 150,000 Kansans will continue to go without health coverage and care unless the Legislature can override the veto. Please call the list of lawmakers below and urge them to expand KanCare. Here is a brief script you can use for your calls: […]

Statement on Senate Passage of KanCare Expansion

Statement of David Jordan, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, on Senate Passage of KanCare Expansion: “Today, a bi-partisan majority of the Kansas state Senate voted 25-13 to expand KanCare, the state’s Medicaid program. By voting to expand KanCare, policymakers voted to bring back $1.9 million a day from Washington to create jobs, […]

Alliance will work with Legislature to expand KanCare

A response to Governor Brownback’s 2017 State of the State address from David Jordan, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas: “Tonight the Governor once again failed to endorse the expansion of KanCare in his State of the State address. He chose to ignore the needs of Kansans, whose lives would be remarkably […]

Closing the Health Coverage Gap Would Help Children and Families

Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center for Children and Families recently collaborated with Alliance member Kansas Action for Children to examine the coverage gap affecting Kansas families. They produced this video to help raise awareness about how working families in Kansas can earn too much to qualify for KanCare while not earn enough to receive […]