Issue Position: Medicaid Expansion
Issue Position
Issues: Health and Health Care
The state refused the expansion of Medicaid and has left $300 million on the table as of the end of 2014. Kansas has an opportunity to cover nearly 150,000 more Kansans through the expansion of Medicaid and the federal government will cover the entire cost through January 2017. After 2017 the state would gradually become responsible for 10% of the costs.
The failure to expand is also hindering our economic recovery in Kansas. Nearly 3,000 jobs would be created in 2016 with the expansion of Medicaid.
I will work with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to expand Medicaid in Kansas.
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