Health access is still lacking
The number of Kansans without health insurance continued to drop in 2016, but the decrease was small compared to states in which Medicaid expansion occurred, a state health expert said.
"For many years,
"This is the first time ever that the uninsured rate in
Overall, though, more Kansans have health insurance. The 2016 data showed 8.7 percent of Kansans don't have insurance, down from 12.3 percent in 2013.
"For many years, young adults in
The ACS numbers showed that 14.2 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds in the Sunflower State are uninsured; for
"Kansans that are poor have always been a little less likely to have insurance than poor persons in other parts of the country, but that gap is widening,"
The numbers also showed racial differences among those who have insurance in
"Previously white non-Hispanic Kansans were less likely to be uninsured than people in the rest of the country,"
Nationally, 5.7 percent of white, non-Hispanic people are uninsured; in
The new data that highlights the fact
"I think it makes the trade-offs more clear for people," he said. "There are reasons that people oppose Medicaid expansion. Many of them are ideological and budgetary, and what they think the appropriate role of government is. But when you see that in the context of how many people are insured, and how
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