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Failure to expand Medicaid hurts the bottom line of our Kansas local communities. Push your lawmakers to act.
By Shannon Portillo and Jade Piros de Carvalho
Special to Gannett Kansas
As local governments across Kansas work on their budgets this summer, counties and cities are struggling to keep mill levies stable amid revenue shortfalls and skyrocketing material costs.
Unfortunately, state lawmakers’ refusal to expand Medicaid left federal dollars on the table that could have offset local tax burdens. To date, Kansas has forfeited more than $4.9 billion because of the Legislature’s refusal to expand Medicaid. Kansas will lose an additional $450 million in American Rescue Plan funding by continuing to not act.
It was early August 1982. Our family flew into Tanzaniaâs port city of Dar es Salaam.
Several vehicles were cleared from customs and needed to be registered. A new five-ton truck had been shipped for work in Tanzania at a project I was to be director of for that coming year.
Since the truck was new and needed to be âbroken in,â it took three days to drive to the eastern shore of Lake Victoria, through the Serengeti National Park.
We arrived in Musoma just after sunset.
Our evening meal was served by Stella Newswanger, who was expecting us on the campus where we were to live for the next year.