Gop Failure In Congress Boosts Medicaid Effort In Kansas

(AP) — Legislators and advocates in Kansas pushing to expand the state's health coverage for the poor to thousands of adults are buoyed by the failure of Republicans in Washington to repeal former President Barack Obama's signature health care law. The GOP-controlled Kansas Legislature already was more receptive this year to expanding the state's Medicaid program, thanks to elections last year that put more moderates and liberals in office. The effort in Kansas could prove largely symbolic because Republican legislators remain deeply divided and Brownback is a longstanding critic of health care policies championed by Obama, a Democrat. Brownback has stopped short of saying he would veto the measure, but in a letter with other GOP governors to congressional leaders last week, he said expanding Medicaid under Obama's policies moved the program away from its "core mission" of helping the truly vulnerable. GOP legislators have long argued that Congress can't be counted on to keep long-term promises to fund most of the expansion, and the Republican legislation to replace the 2010 Affordable Care Act had a provision that would have blocked an expansion in Kansas.

 

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