Political rivals reveal deal to expand Medicaid to Kansas families earning up to 138% of federal poverty level. The cost would be offset by a surcharge to hospitals, and the plan would take effect by Jan. 1, 2021 #ksleg via @timvcarpenter @sherman_news https://t.co/d3uzvaYNyW
— CJOnline (@CJOnline) January 9, 2020
Details to come.
But the expansion looks to be fast with a 1/1/21 start date and it will be a full expansion to 138% FPL so it could potentially be a state plan amendment expansion with waivers either not needed or able to be sequentially added to the program. There is no work requirement. There is a work referral program, but that is common.
Elections matter, and here are some of the results of all the hard work Kansans put in over the 2018 campaign season.
Patricia Kayden
Thanks Obama!! Great news.
rikyrah
Elections have consequences
rikyrah
Mayhew,
Are you going to do a post about this Administration trying to curtail disability benefits?
sstarr
Someone should put up a post about what’s happening in Nebraska – the people voted to expand medicaid and the Governor has been delaying it for years citing technical difficulties.
Barbara
That brings the number to have adopted and implemented Medicaid expansion to 37 states and DC. kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions-interactive-map/
That is outstanding.
Chyron HR
This is bad news for Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and anyone else who’s ego insists that he’s better than “that damn ni**er”.
WaterGirl
@Barbara: It’s outstanding. That’s 74% of the states. 100 – 74 = 26. Hmm. Maybe the “batshit crazy” number isn’t only for people, but for states, too.
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: Of course we all know that it would have been 100% of states from the get-go but for a certain John Glover Roberts Jr.
Grr…
Cheers,
Scott.
Jay C
I know it can get tedious tossing political speculation in to EVERY thread, but are Medicare/healthcare issues likely to play a part in Kansas’s Senate race this fall? Sen. Pat Roberts is retiring after this term, and so far, the GOP’s “leading” candidate for the seat seems to be the odious Kris Kobach: whose principle interest in healthcare issues is probably finding ways to blame “illegal aliens” for carrying The Plague.
Preliminary polling (yeah, I know) shows him way behind every Democrat listed: I wonder if the healthcare issue might be a key to an unlikely/unexpected flip of this seat….
jonas
In local/state races, I’d say yeah. A senate race is going to be about one thing: Trump. If Kobach runs, he’s going to run firmly tied to Trump’s coattails. Whether that will appeal as much to Kansans in 10 months as it did in 2016, well, we’ll see.
Yutsano
@jonas: Ever since his tenure as Secretary of State, Kobach has failed to get elected to every office he has tried to get so far. It’s entirely possible Kansas just wants him to go away. But if he does run, this makes a flip in Kansas much more likely.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: Roberts is on my “just thinking about him makes me want to bang my head against a wall” list.
John Revolta
Clawing their way back from the madness………………………if these guys can do it…………………!
Richard Guhl
David,
Today’s local paper features an article which asserts that US citizens pay an average of $2497 per person for administrative health care costs, while Canadians average just $551, for a total of $812 billion.
Since total health care spending in the US last year was about $3.5 trillion, that says almost 25% of all health care spending went to administrative costs. Yet, I know you’ve posted before that private health insurance spending only amounts to about 40% of all health care spending. And since the ACA mandates that 80 – 85% of private health insurance has to go towards actual health care, that would suggest much lower administrative costs.
Am I missing something?