$1.6B offered to Kansas and Missouri for Medicaid expansion, but GOP doesn t want it Jonathan Shorman and Jeanne Kuang, The Kansas City Star
Apr. 7 The number of patients visiting Health Partnership Clinic in Olathe and Paola dropped nearly a third last year as the pandemic took hold. And yet, the number without insurance surged by 10% and is still growing.
Officials there, and at similar Kansas and Missouri clinics serving low-income patients, say such numbers highlight a burgeoning need for Medicaid expansion. It would provide health coverage to hundreds of thousands of people across both states who make too much for Medicaid but not enough for subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.
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Kansas joins 17 other states without a mask mandate: ‘The numbers don’t support’ one, a legislator says
Updated Apr 01, 2021;
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TOPEKA, Kan. Kansas’s statewide mask mandate, already an exemption-filled patchwork, came to an end Thursday, canceled by top Republican lawmakers under a new law that makes it more difficult for health officials to keep COVID-19 precautions in place.
A group of leading legislators, known as the Legislative Coordinating Council, voted 5-2 along party lines to overturn Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s mask mandate hours after she reissued it to fulfill the requirements of the new law. One member of the eight person panel, embattled Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop, was absent for the vote conducted over video conference.
Former Kansas GOP Gov. Jeff Colyer, naming key campaign aide, opens bid to retake office Jonathan Shorman, The Kansas City Star
Mar. 5 TOPEKA Republican Jeff Colyer, who was governor of Kansas for a year, has effectively launched his bid to reclaim the office, saying the state needs an authentic, effective conservative as governor.
He announced Friday that he had named Mary Eisenhower granddaughter of President Dwight Eisenhower as campaign treasurer. Eisenhower co-chaired Gov. Sam Brownback s 2014 re-election bid.
Colyer kicked off what is likely to be an intense primary battle among Republicans over the next year and a half for the nomination and chance to take on Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. Republicans believe they can use the first-term governor s handling of the pandemic to convince voters to make a change.
I think it s here to stay. Trump s grip on Kansas, Missouri Republicans still strong Jonathan Shorman, Jeanne Kuang, and Sarah Ritter, The Kansas City Star
Feb. 21 TOPEKA On Jan. 6, Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran voted to certify the presidential election results in a Senate chamber that had just been ransacked by a violent mob hunting for politicians perceived as disloyal to President Donald Trump.
Moran had defended Trump s right to fight the outcome in court. But ultimately, he said, he was bound by the Constitution.
That wasn t enough for the Republicans of Clay County.
A resolution of censure, posted by the Clay County Republican Party to Facebook on Feb. 5, said Moran had caused great harm to the citizens of the county, to Kansas, and to the United States by not objecting to electoral votes from several key states won by President Joe Biden. The party said the resolution passed the county s central committee with overwhelming support but didn t provide a
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