Medicaid ploy fails
Lawmakers returned to action after a three-week hiatus and confronted a maneuver from Senate Minority Leader
"I'm not saying no," Denning said. "I'm saying this policy isn't ready."
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"There are only two senators —
Studies predict the extension of health insurance to more low-income families would add 130,000 children and adults to the KanCare program, as Medicaid is known in
Hensley’s gambit was a longshot — even if the motion prevailed, a second vote requiring support from 27 senators would have been necessary to place the bill on the chamber’s calendar — but forced a rare debate on Medicaid expansion by the full chamber.
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"I’m voting for the welfare mother who finally got a job only to discover she was not eligible for KanCare," Berger said. "I’m voting for the 45-year-old woman who cannot afford to see a physician about a lump on her breast, which ultimately metastasized. I’m voting yes for the asthmatic child whose parents cannot afford health care insurance. I’m voting yes for the pregnant woman who was abandoned by her husband and cannot afford prenatal care and a late-term miscarriage depriving her of having that son that she desired."
The failure to advance a bill in the
“I’ve said from the beginning of the session that Medicaid expansion is an issue that could be involved in kind of the endgame in terms of how we get out of here," Hensley said. "We still have to pass a budget. In fact, that’s the only thing we have to do between now and the adjournment of this session."
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