2025 Rally for Health Care- Details

Attending the 2025 Rally for Medicaid Expansion at the Kansas Statehouse on Wednesday, March 12, 2025? Here are the details and resources you might need.

Call for Artists: Healthy Kansas Community Engagement Art Project

The Alliance for a Healthy Kansas is seeking artists to participate in a traveling community art show that will visit up to five key community hubs across Kansas over the course of several months. The selected artist will create a community engagement piece that will travel across the state.

Advocates continue fight for Medicaid expansion despite election setback

Health-care advocates are vowing to continue their fight to expand Medicaid in Kansas – despite this week’s election, which expanded the Republican supermajority.

Gov. Laura Kelly, D-Kansas, supports expanding the program to more low-income families under the Affordable Care Act – but conservative lawmakers passed a law forbidding the move.

110,000 Kansans lost Medicaid during ‘unwinding’ process

More than 110,000 Kansans have lost healthcare coverage during the post-pandemic Medicaid ‘unwinding’ process, according to new state data.

It’s time for Kelly to consider the nuclear option to expand Medicaid

Wichita Eagle – DION LEFFLER, OPINION EDITOR – After years of legislative refusal to protect the health and well-being of working-poor Kansans, the time has come for Kelly to seriously consider defying the Legislature, inform the federal government she’s accepting expanded Medicaid on behalf of the people of Kansas, and fight it out in court.

Mississippi Lawmakers Reach a tentative deal to Expand Medicaid

Mississippi lawmakers reached an agreement late Monday on a proposal to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, providing largely free health coverage to an additional 200,000 low-income residents in a state with dire health outcomes and numerous rural hospitals facing financial collapse.

new poll confirms widespread support for medicaid expansion in kansas

A new poll released by the Sunflower Foundation re-affirms previous polls over the last several years that Kansans widely support Medicaid expansion, and highlights that most Kansans value the economic benefits that expansion brings.

Love Thy Neighbor

Join the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas and other faith-based advocates for a series of “Love Thy Neighbor” themed events for Medicaid expansion this legislative session. See below for more information about how you can participate and get involved. Promotion materials are available for use at the bottom of this web page.